Link: https://survey.fedecan.ca//s/cmjcnqzgd0002th01dh6naqm6

The census will close on January 15th, 2026.

A lot has changed since our last census in 2023! We would like to take another opportunity to learn about our growing community.

Everyone is welcome to fill out this survey. You do not need to be located in Canada, and you do not need to have an account on one of our platforms. If you do have an account on lemmy.ca, sh.itjust.works, piefed.ca, and/or pixelfed.ca, you can indicate that on the census in order to be included in those separate graphs/visualizations.

No question is mandatory. You may skip any question by either selecting “no answer (skip this question)”, or by leaving the question blank. Some questions will be hidden depending on your selections. For example, the Pixelfed specific questions will be hidden if you don’t select that as one of the platforms you use.

Sections:

  • Section 1: Location
  • Section 2: Demographics
  • Section 3a: Instance Usage (Forum/Threadiverse)
  • Section 3b: Instance Usage (Pixelfed)
  • Section 4: Feedback / Closing questions

When results are ready, we will share them on our website and with posts on:

The questions were created with help from @Dave@lemmy.nz, based on the questions from their census this year :)

EDIT: We’ve made the links unclickable (see comments). The census is long, so I didn’t want people to lose their progress near the end. The links are here:

  • INeedMana@piefed.zipEnglish
    1·
    2 days ago

    I don’t mean to rush anyone but I’m curious about results. Any estimate when those will be posted?

    • Otter@lemmy.caOPMEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      Realistically, maybe a few weeks or a month minimum 😄

      Right now the plan is:

      • cleaning up the data (removing rows that are clearly errors, tests, or duplicate submissions)
      • figuring out the best ways to graph each question
      • cleaning individual data rows into a format that’s easy to graph
      • generating some basic image graphs

      Then once we post those, we want to have the interactive version on our site as well. We’ll be working through all that during off hours from work / other life tasks

      If you have a specific question you want to know the results for, I can give you an approximate breakdown sooner. I assume the data won’t change significantly during the cleaning, most of the responses look legitimate