It seems that a lot of new people have learned about these platforms from a popular post on Reddit. We currently see 78 notifications (and counting) and a pile of applications on piefed.ca

I am pinning this thread on both platforms for new users to pop in to and ask questions. Please give them a warm welcome!

edit: 392 new users on the first day and hundreds more since then, all from one post 🥳

Please let us know how we can help! For example, here are some tips on finding communities: https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/lemmy/for-users/how-to-find-communities The guide says Lemmy, but the steps are the same on Piefed

Since a lot of people arrived here from r/BuyCanadian, maybe you will be interested in [email protected]

🍁 Finding Canadian Communities on Piefed

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    • Shadow@lemmy.caMEnglish
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      2 days ago

      If Fedecan funding ever ceases to pay the bills, is there a plan in place, or does it shut down?

      Realistically it would probably just shut down, but our donations are more than covering our expenses at the moment and the site is still growing. I don’t have any concerns about not being able to pay the bills. The site only costs us about $200/mo to run so it’s not a huge amount, but I’ll admit it’s only that low due to my donating a server worth around $40k (when it was new, although it’d be like $80k today thanks to ram prices).

      May I suggest looking at government grants and funding if they don’t interfere with your goal and operations, especially now, the government is looking to boost Canadian enterprise.

      Honestly, that sounds like a lot of work 😂 I’m not keen on spending time writing up business growth docs and having meetings, my day job has enough of that for me. If someone else comes along and wants to join the org + help drive that then we’d probably be open to it, but we’ve all got busy lives and it’s not a priority for us.

      do those working with Fedecan pay themselves for their work?

      Nope. It’s something we’ve discussed, but for now we’re all on board with keeping things lightweight and not trying to turn this into wikipedia with regular fund raisers to pay salaries.