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Cake day: June 5th, 2023

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:

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.

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://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)

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Our winner for the French category:

Angine de Poitrine — ‘Fabienk’ (2026-02-05)

Platform Link
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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:

Playlists for all nominated songs

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:

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’).