cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/40526401
More than 3,000 solar panels power Jack’s Solar Garden, cool the land and help it turn a profit
nice!
14 hours
Sounds like we should get this place ready for another wave of people
Otter
I waddled onto the beach and stole found a computer to use.
🍁⚕️ 💽
Note: I’m moderating a handful of communities in more of a caretaker role. If you want to take one on, send me a message and I’ll share more info :)
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It seems like these articles came out after the huggingface ones
Sounds like they got caught trying to steal from huggingface, and are now trying to market off of it
3 days
Police in southwestern Colorado say a man from British Columbia [Canada] has died after the helicopter he was piloting crashed on Sunday.
The body of 56-year-old Nicholas Dale of Sooke, on southern Vancouver Island, was pulled from his helicopter that went down in the Silver Jack Reservoir, in a remote area southwest of Aspen, Co., according to Adam Murdie with the Gunnison County Sheriff’s Office.
Murdie says Dale had been helping firefighters with the Gold Mountain Fire, which has grown to about 148 square kilometres. Dale was the only one in the helicopter at the time.
The global relevance of this:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/17/republicans-canada-sanctions-wildfire-smoke
Republicans threaten Canada with sanctions over drifting wildfire smoke
Fires are also blazing across the US and the Trump administration has repealed several climate protections
I think this article and headline does a poor job of explaining the wider context around this one.
It is likely to be aimed at financial traders who want to see market-moving news fast. Trump’s social media posts often cause sudden swings in global markets, especially when he writes about trade and tariffs.
For firms, a delay of even seconds can be costly. Until now, banks and traders had to monitor the app manually. The new system will send posts directly to paying clients.
See crosspost(s) for more discussion:
This is the first big step in the process to develop comprehensive guidelines for the Fedecan non-profit and the various platforms.
While this will mostly involve converting tacit knowledge and experience into an explicit written form, we expect that this process will inevitably bring up some points of disagreement on the best way to deal with different issues. We ask everyone participating in these discussions to please contribute constructively and in good faith. We encourage you to bring up any concerns or issues you have with the proposed structure and drafted guidelines, so that we can work together to fix them early on. However, in order to keep a productive environment for those discussions, we will be pruning any comment chains that devolve into personal attacks, slap fights, etc.
To help ground your feedback, consider these thought experiments when evaluating a potential guideline:
- Veil of ignorance: Would it still feel fair to you if you switched places with someone else on the platform (ex. a new user, a moderator, an admin, a member of a vulnerable group, etc.)?
- Equal Applicability: These rules will be enforced uniformly on everyone. A poorly written rule that helps “your side” today, can easily harm “your side” in the future as circumstances change.
The full guidelines, including governance details like the annual review cycle, can be found on the website: https://fedecan.ca/en/guidelines/
We plan to structure the guidelines as follows:
Tier 1: Fedecan Rules
Internal Conduct
These rules apply to Fedecan team members (directors, officers, admins, and anyone with elevated access). They set expectations for how team members should act.
Universal Rules
These are the baseline rules that apply to every user on every Fedecan platform. They cover the things that are prohibited by Canadian law (threats, hate speech, CSAM, non-consensual intimate imagery) as well as universal policy rules (privacy/doxxing, harassment, fraud, content that could cause harm, labelling of sensitive content, etc.).
Tier 2: Platform-Specific
Each platform has different functionality and norms, so this is where we can be more specific with the rules. The threadiverse platforms (lemmy.ca, piefed.ca, sh.itjust.works) share similar rules around community creation, moderation, vote manipulation, and content labelling. Pixelfed has its own rules tailored to its platform.
Tier 3: Community-Level Rule Templates
These are optional templates that communities can link to, or use as a starting point for their own rules. The idea is that moderators can point users to a clearly written explanation of why a rule exists, and any relevant exceptions, rather than trying to fit everything into the sidebar. Additionally, if many communities are enforcing a particular rule in the same way, then users will have an easier time understanding and following them.
The post title standards template has been drafted, and we plan to add more as the need arises. I have a few others that are in the works, but they have some overlap with the other sections, so I thought that it would be better to let people discuss first.
The community seems to be unmoderated and I’m seeing reports from it as a result. My plan is to clean up the substack post and the ones from the banned users, and then pin a post linking to a few communities from here: https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=europe
If possible, please add it to my LW account: https://lemmy.world/u/otter
I also don’t mind if someone else takes care of the community or takes it in some other direction. If someone else would like the community, please feel free to give it to them. :)
Generalized ‘Threadiverse’ sections
Previously, we had separate guide sections for Lemmy and Piefed, with very few Piefed specific pages. Instead of writing a new set of pages for Piefed, we have generalized most of the Lemmy pages into pages that can be applied to any threadiverse platform. When the page can use additional Piefed specific information or screenshots, we added a “🛠️ Help Needed” card near the top.
This includes the following pages:
- threadiverse/overview
- threadiverse/detailed-overview
- threadiverse/alternative-uis
- threadiverse/apps
- threadiverse/finding-communities
- threadiverse/formatting-posts
- threadiverse/how-to-block
- threadiverse/how-to-deal-with-inappropriate-content
- threadiverse/how-to-open-in-my-instance
Since ‘privacy’ information will be specific to each platform, and there is more of a risk if a user is confused about that information, we are keeping those pages separate. The existing Lemmy page is still up, and there is a work-in-progress page for Piefed that a contributor is working on.
- https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/threadiverse/privacy-lemmy
- https://github.com/fedecan-ca/fedecan.ca/pull/63
At this time, the moderation, admin, and dev sections are still separate.
- We will likely generalize the moderation section next, once the example rule templates are ready
- The admin sections will likely stay separate
- The future of the dev section is uncertain, and it might be generalized to the fediverse level
Updated ‘Alternative UIs’ page
https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/threadiverse/alternative-uis
The entries now follow a consistent format, and are sorted alphabetically after the default UIs. We have also added a summary table that compares all of the alternative UIs.
RSS feeds for announcements
These announcements are intended for users that have accounts on our platforms, or are interested in news about our organization.
You can use it by adding the following link to your RSS feed reader / aggregator: https://fedecan.ca/feed-en.xml
Other changes
Other changes include:
- Updated the wording on the “Our Platforms” section so that it is clearer for new users: https://fedecan.ca/en/#our-platforms
- We published a few older announcements to the website. They existed only as Lemmy/Piefed posts in the past: https://fedecan.ca/en/announcements
- Updated the donation page with a nicer comparison table and option cards. We did not make any changes to the donation options, that will come at a later time: https://fedecan.ca/en/donate
- We made fixes to the footer responsiveness and style
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/66632160
Generalized ‘Threadiverse’ sections
Previously, we had separate guide sections for Lemmy and Piefed, with very few Piefed specific pages. Instead of writing a new set of pages for Piefed, we have generalized most of the Lemmy pages into pages that can be applied to any threadiverse platform. When the page can use additional Piefed specific information or screenshots, we added a “🛠️ Help Needed” card near the top.
This includes the following pages:
- threadiverse/overview
- threadiverse/detailed-overview
- threadiverse/alternative-uis
- threadiverse/apps
- threadiverse/finding-communities
- threadiverse/formatting-posts
- threadiverse/how-to-block
- threadiverse/how-to-deal-with-inappropriate-content
- threadiverse/how-to-open-in-my-instance
Since ‘privacy’ information will be specific to each platform, and there is more of a risk if a user is confused about that information, we are keeping those pages separate. The existing Lemmy page is still up, and there is a work-in-progress page for Piefed that a contributor is working on.
- https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/threadiverse/privacy-lemmy
- https://github.com/fedecan-ca/fedecan.ca/pull/63
At this time, the moderation, admin, and dev sections are still separate.
- We will likely generalize the moderation section next, once the example rule templates are ready
- The admin sections will likely stay separate
- The future of the dev section is uncertain, and it might be generalized to the fediverse level
Updated ‘Alternative UIs’ page
https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/threadiverse/alternative-uis
The entries now follow a consistent format, and are sorted alphabetically after the default UIs. We have also added a summary table that compares all of the alternative UIs.
RSS feeds for announcements
These announcements are intended for users that have accounts on our platforms, or are interested in news about our organization.
You can use it by adding the following link to your RSS feed reader / aggregator: https://fedecan.ca/feed-en.xml
Other changes
Other changes include:
- Updated the wording on the “Our Platforms” section so that it is clearer for new users: https://fedecan.ca/en/#our-platforms
- We published a few older announcements to the website. They existed only as Lemmy/Piefed posts in the past: https://fedecan.ca/en/announcements
- Updated the donation page with a nicer comparison table and option cards. We did not make any changes to the donation options, that will come at a later time: https://fedecan.ca/en/donate
- We made fixes to the footer responsiveness and style
cross-posted from: https://toast.ooo/post/14579547
https://canvas.fediverse.events/
July 18th (4am UTC) to July 20th (also 4am UTC)
Canvas 2026 is in roughly 30 days!
Canvas is an annual event hosted for the Fediverse, allowing everyone to contribute to a pixel canvas, one pixel at a time
Check out the website for a live countdown, login testing, chat room (matrix/discord), and what last year’s Canvas was!
If you are a developer, check out the source, and if you’re a Fediverse app dev check the docs to add Canvas functionality to your app 👀
Mlem is adding support for Fediverse Events within their app ✨
cross-posted from: https://toast.ooo/post/14579547
https://canvas.fediverse.events/
July 18th (4am UTC) to July 20th (also 4am UTC)
Canvas 2026 is in roughly 30 days!
Canvas is an annual event hosted for the Fediverse, allowing everyone to contribute to a pixel canvas, one pixel at a time
Check out the website for a live countdown, login testing, chat room (matrix/discord), and what last year’s Canvas was!
If you are a developer, check out the source, and if you’re a Fediverse app dev check the docs to add Canvas functionality to your app 👀
Mlem is adding support for Fediverse Events within their app ✨
3 months
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/64284963
Please see the cross post link for the full announcement post in our community.
Our winner for the English category:
Boy Golden — ‘Suffer’ (2026-02-13)
Platform Link YouTube Music Listen Spotify Listen Tidal Listen Deezer Listen Apple Music Listen MusicBrainz Listen Bandcamp Listen Song.link Listen
Our winner for the French category:
Angine de Poitrine — ‘Fabienk’ (2026-02-05)
Platform Link YouTube Music Listen Spotify Listen Tidal Listen Deezer Listen Apple Music Listen MusicBrainz Listen Bandcamp Listen Song.link Listen
Our winner for the Inuktitut category:
Elisapie — ‘Uummati Attanarsimat (Heart of Glass)’ (2025-09-24)
Platform Link YouTube Music Listen Spotify Listen Tidal Listen Deezer Listen Apple Music Listen MusicBrainz Listen Bandcamp Listen Song.link Listen
Some links:
- Nomination thread: https://lemmy.ca/post/63076630
- Voting thread: https://lemmy.ca/post/64027827
Playlists for all nominated songs
After taking a lot longer than I was expecting to, I’m pleased to announce the results of the census we ran earlier this year!
This year, the results are on our website instead of being copied into a post here. I’m hoping that this is better since the website charts are interactive, with additional details if you click/tap on something. They also support dark and light mode. The full results contain discussion on how we processed the results, any assumptions we made, and all of our recommendations for how to improve this process for next time.
fedecan.ca/en/announcements/2026-04-03_censusResults
If you have any issues with the site, let us know and we will take a look.
I can also add screenshots in the comments so that people reading the comments don’t have to search through the article for context.
A few sample charts
Section 1.5: Internet Speed
Section 1.8: Most common pets
Yes, the 200 cherry shrimp were all from one response.
Section 2.01: Age Distribution
Section 2.08: Education
Section 2.10: Desktop Operating System
The question on specific distro / version had a pretty low sample size, but you can find that too on the article.
Section 3.1.08: Most popular desktop UIs
Section 3.1.10: Most Popular Mobile Apps
Section 3.1.13: How often people use centralized forums/threaded platforms
Section 3.2.05: What people post on Pixelfed
Section 3.2.06: What people follow on Pixelfed
Section 3.3.04: Donations (of time or money)
Section 4.4: Favourite genre of music
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 too many registration applications for me to keep this up to date.
I am pinning this thread on both platforms for new users to pop in to and ask questions. Please give them a warm welcome!
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 !buycanadian@lemmy.ca
🍁 Finding Canadian Communities on Piefed
- Open a topic from this list: https://piefed.ca/topics
- Browse that entire topic, or subscribe to individual communities from the sidebar
edit: 392 new users on the first day and hundreds more since then, all from one post 🥳
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:
- !main@lemmy.ca
- !main@sh.itjust.works
- !main@piefed.ca
- A pinned post on pixelfed.ca
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:
After reviewing the previous meta post, and discussing with the community moderator, we feel that closing this community is the best option at this time. This community does not have the moderation capacity to handle the content that gets posted, and the rules/culture need to be reworked to prevent the issues that are common here. We got some great suggestions in the linked thread if someone would like to work on this in the future.
Please feel free to offer additional feedback in this thread, and to suggest alternate communities to fill this niche. I can edit this post to add suggestions:
Alternative Communities
Fediverse news and discussions:
Community Building discussions:
Apps, Development, Technical Discussion:
- !lemmyapps@lemmy.world
- !decentralization@lemmy.world
- !activitypub@community.nodebb.org
- !activitypub@programming.dev
Memes:
Discussing mod & admin actions:
We receive a lot of reports from this community, and we get the impression that the current rules and moderation capabilities aren’t sufficient for a community like this. While things are quieter right now, during periods of activity this community tends to cause unnecessary strain on the lemmy.ca admin team.
Having additional moderators could help with this, as well as having a more comprehensive set of rules. That way, the community’s mod team can go through the queue more quickly and also take action on users that abuse the reports.
For the sake of a productive discussion, please limit comments in this thread to discussions on how to improve this community, without directly pointing to specific users or situations. Ideally, this will also help to develop better rules (think ‘veil of ignorance’).
A big welcome to everyone that has joined these past few weeks, we’re all very excited to have you joining us! You’ll find that people are more than happy to help you get started and learn how to use the site.
If you feel up for it, go ahead and make a post in this community introducing yourself, asking questions, or asking about topics that you want to find communities for. This community is intended for this purpose!
We have put together some resources to help new users get started.
- How to find communities.
- Direct links to communities mentioned in this guide:
- Where to find mobile apps
- Direct links to communities mentioned in this guide:
- Alternative UIs, if you don’t like the default
You can also read:
- A quick overview of Lemmy
- A detailed guide on how Lemmy works
- A quick overview of ‘the Fediverse’
- Learn about the non-profit that runs this site
These guides were published very recently, and we will be updating them over time. If you find that something is confusing or missing, please let us know and we can improve them further.
Welcome to Lemmy :)
A few common issues:
“I’m not seeing all the content”
Lemmy allows you to filter out content based on the language, but some new users will set this incorrectly in their settings. Please see this post for help. You can also post in either this community, or !languagesettings@lemmy.zip to ask for more help.
“I want to block posts with certain words”
It is possible to use uBlock Origin to do this in the web browser. See this post for detailed instructions.
Welcome!
Check out !newtolemmy@lemmy.ca if you have any questions
We’ve also put together a guide, and new users might find these pages helpful:
https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/get-started
https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/threadiverse/detailed-overview
https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/threadiverse/apps