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!
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Sorry to anyone that might be waiting for a reply from me on reddit or on here, I’ll be away for a few hours. You are in great hands here with the rest of the admin team and the wider community :)
I want to add to new users, to make sure to check Hot, Top every 6 hours, Scaled, Active, etc. if they aren’t seeing interesting things. For Lemmy, Active shows up as the default and it comes across as the least active.
And switching from Local to All lets you see the stream of posts from all the other Lemmy/Piefed/Etc. communities worldwide.
Here’s to 1k Piefed.ca users! I can’t wait for more stability thanks to the increased attention.
I saw this thread on Reddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/BuyCanadian/comments/1qr4tji/a_canadianrun_reddit_alternative/
This might have helped add some users.
Hopefully there isn’t too much friction in joining and finding communities across the Fediverse.
And welcome everyone!!
Joined from that thread as well!
Byw the Summit app is Canadian🇨🇦!
Just so u know, 5 upvotes here are like 50 there. 😁
What do you mean?
The userbase here is far smaller which means a lot less engagement.
I mean when you get 5 upvotes here, you should feel like you got 50 upvotes on Reddit. Because of our smaller population.
Welcome!
Just joined. I was suggested to use an app called Voyager for this. Having some trouble getting that to work. Does any have a step by step? I’ve already registered and been approved for piefed.ca. So when I went to login, it gives me an network error.
Edit: looking into it more, do we have to make a lemmy.ca server account as well?
For sure! Here is what I did:
- Tap the profile icon in the middle of the bar at the bottom of the screen (it might have the text “lemmy.zip”)
- Tap “Get Started”
- Select “Log in”
- Type in “piefed.ca”, and confirm that you understand the support is experiemental
- Log in with your username and password
The same app can be used to sign in to a number of websites, so that might be the point of confusion. However, once you have signed in, you should be able to use it normally from here on out :)
Thank you for this. This is exactly what I’ve done and I run into a connection error notice. Turned off wifi and tried again, still not working.
Can you try again now? I think there are two potential causes:
- Our server is being overloaded with new people
- Around 15 minutes ago, we upgraded the server specs to handle the increased load, and so it might have been down right as you were trying it
I just reinstalled Voyager and tried it all again and the same error is occurring.
I will take a break for now and try again later on. I love how much help I’ve received and hopefully my issue can be resolved and help others in the future.
You might have to type in piefed.ca as your instance. I think it asks what instance you’re on, but it’s probably not on the list. Once you’re in, you’ll love it and all of this is worth it. I swear.
Edit: Also, it looks like there is a voyager crypto app, be sure to get the lemmy version. https://vger.app/
I downloaded the app from droid-ify called Voyager for Lemmy, it looks exactly what you linked so not sure that’s the issue.
Thank you
I use boost or synch, but I’m using lemmy.ca and not piefed.
Boost also supports Piefed, the login process is similar on Boost :)
Have you installed it already, what issue are you running into?
You should be able to select PieFed.ca and login with your credentials
I’ve installed Voyager already yes. On the app I select the “get started” from lemmy.zip and from there I can either click “join lemmy.zip”, “picker another server”, OR click “login”
When I click login, I can select the piefed.ca server and then enter my info and that’s where it says “connection error, please try again”
Do I need to first make a lemmy.ca account?
“get started” from lemmy.zip
You should be getting started with piefed.ca. Is it a pulldown?
To all new fellow canucks:
- Switch your feed to All
- Switch your sorting to one of Hot/Active/Scaled
- Hot is similar to Reddit’s
- Active is also similar in surfacing actively discussed posts
- Scaled is like Hot but it also surfaces more posts from smaller communities
- To curate your feed, subscribe to communities (equiv of subreddit) and switch your feed to Subscribed with Scaled sorting
A curated list of Canadian communities (subreddits): https://lemmy.ca/post/2890824
Piefed.ca is currently down!! Must be A LOT of interest.
We’re also configuring our server to handle the load. It definitely has the capacity for it, but there may be intermittent outages as we restart things.
Judging by the time of our comment, I think we were making a config change right around when you made that comment
I’d be curious on this too. First instinct would be Lemmy has to be more efficient with Rust over Piefed with Python. But I’d like to actually know that rather than assume.
If people are having issues they can alternately try piefed.zip
It might ease some server load
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Orange bill!
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Let’s goo!!!
Find a Organized List of Canadian Communities here --> [email protected]
Direct link to post: https://lemmy.ca/post/2890824
