Guides | Getting Started
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Welcome to the Fediverse! This guide can help you get started.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/39121040

We’ve been working on these for some time, and with the recent uptick in signups, we tried to finish up the first few pages so that new users could use them.

You can find them all on fedecan.ca under Guides & Resources. For those that are not familiar, this is the website for the non-profit (Fedecan) that manages lemmy.ca.

We’re planning to gather some feedback on the technical Fediverse communities first, before sharing the guides more broadly, in order to catch any issues early.

If you want to add to them, feel free to reach out, and we can help you coordinate if someone else is also working on it.

The new sections:

Sections that are incomplete and relevant to new users. We have some work in progress for these, and hope to have them out soon:

A previously written section that didn’t get posted about yet (thank you to Rooki):

Future plans include

  • Guides for Moderators
    • Set up a new community (best practices for name, sidebar, image, banner, and getting it federated outwards)
    • Moderation Best Practices
  • Guides for Admins
    • Information on our infrastructure and setup
  • SwizzleStickEnglish
    2·
    8 days ago

    Site either respects system light/dark theme or is dark by default. Either way, it’s a plus for me that is often forgotten.

    Guides are simple enough and the illustrations are cute.

    You’ve got the balance of plugging your own instance while reminding visitors that there are others just right.

    All useful info and not so much of it that it is overbearing.