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 🥳

    • Otter@lemmy.caOPMEnglish
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      25 days ago

      Downvotes should be enabled, what are you seeing on your client?

      • Ofiuco@piefed.caEnglish
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        24 days ago

        Logged out and the upvotes were there, logged back in and the upvotes dissapear so I guess I am restricted for downvoting too much or something, guess it’s time to leave the threadiverse

        • m-p{3}@lemmy.caMEnglish
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          23 days ago

          Downvote being enabled is an instance setting, not a per-user configuration

          it is currently enabled on lemmy.ca, where this community !main@lemmy.ca resides

          and also enabled on piefed.ca, where your account resides

          Just to confirm, I don’t see any flags on your account that would restrict downvotes

        • Otter@lemmy.caOPMEnglish
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          23 days ago

          Another thing you can try is force refreshing the page. On a lot of browsers, you can do that by hitting the refresh button while holding down the shift key

          • Ofiuco@piefed.caEnglish
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            23 days ago

            None of that applies, I’m using the default theme, I haven’t changed addons on firefox for a long time, literally just woke up one day and they were gone.
            It’s not about refreshing because I completely deleted the cookies and cached content from here (hence how I saw that while logged out the downvote arrow was there again).
            Already checked on my pc and it’s the same so it’s not a local device thing.