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    <updated>2026-05-15T04:43:22.756Z</updated>
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    <subtitle>Fedecan news and announcements, for the non-profit and our platforms.</subtitle>
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    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Lemmyvision 3: A Canadian submission wins first place]]></title>
        <id>https://fedecan.ca/en/announcements/2026-05-01_lemmyvision-2025</id>
        <link href="https://fedecan.ca/en/announcements/2026-05-01_lemmyvision-2025"/>
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        <updated>2026-05-01T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Thank you everyone for the nominations, discussion, and for voting in our nomination survey! This article will go over the Canadian side of this year's event.]]></summary>
        <author>
            <name>Otter</name>
            <uri>https://lemmy.ca/u/otter</uri>
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        <category label="Lemmyvision"/>
        <category label="Canadian"/>
        <category label="Music"/>
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        <title type="html"><![CDATA[2025 Instance Census Results]]></title>
        <id>https://fedecan.ca/en/announcements/2026-04-03_censusResults</id>
        <link href="https://fedecan.ca/en/announcements/2026-04-03_censusResults"/>
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        <updated>2026-04-03T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Thank you to everyone who participated in the 2025 Fedecan Instance Census! We received around of 600 total valid responses this time around. We hope that you enjoy the results that we've put together.]]></summary>
        <author>
            <name>Otter</name>
            <uri>https://lemmy.ca/u/otter</uri>
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        <category label="Census"/>
        <category label="Demographics"/>
        <category label="Usage Statistics"/>
        <category label="Threadiverse / Forum"/>
        <category label="Pixelfed"/>
        <category label="Fediverse"/>
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        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Fedecan Update: 2 years later]]></title>
        <id>https://fedecan.ca/en/announcements/2025-07-05_fedecan_update</id>
        <link href="https://fedecan.ca/en/announcements/2025-07-05_fedecan_update"/>
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        <updated>2025-07-05T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Hello everyone! It’s time for another long-overdue update on how Fedecan and our various sites are doing. It’s been just over two years since the great Reddit migration, and in that time we’ve made some solid progress]]></summary>
        <author>
            <name>Shadow</name>
            <uri>https://lemmy.ca/u/Shadow</uri>
        </author>
        <category label="Fedecan"/>
        <category label="Finances"/>
        <category label="Infrastructure"/>
        <category label="Fediverse Growth"/>
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    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Launch of piefed.ca]]></title>
        <id>https://fedecan.ca/en/announcements/2025-06-06_piefed-launch</id>
        <link href="https://fedecan.ca/en/announcements/2025-06-06_piefed-launch"/>
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        <updated>2025-06-06T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Would you like some pie? We have launched a PieFed instance! PieFed follows a similar format as Lemmy and Mbin. Those that are familiar with Lemmy will find it very similar, with some additional features including topic lists, optional private voting, new mod and admin tools, crosspost de-duplication, community wikis, etc.]]></summary>
        <author>
            <name>Fedecan</name>
            <uri>..</uri>
        </author>
        <category label="Fediverse"/>
        <category label="Platform"/>
        <category label="Threadiverse"/>
        <category label="Piefed"/>
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        <title type="html"><![CDATA[2025 Lemmyvision Song Contest]]></title>
        <id>https://fedecan.ca/en/announcements/2025-04-10_lemmyvision-2025</id>
        <link href="https://fedecan.ca/en/announcements/2025-04-10_lemmyvision-2025"/>
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        <updated>2025-04-10T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[We gathered 26 nominations and picked the best English, French, and Inuktitut songs to submit to this year's contest! Lemmyvision is an annual song contest held on the forum side of the Fediverse. Regional instances such as ours are asked to send one song in the language of the region to the contest. Once all songs are received, there is a global vote to determine the winner! ]]></summary>
        <author>
            <name>Otter</name>
            <uri>https://lemmy.ca/u/otter</uri>
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        <category label="Lemmyvision"/>
        <category label="Canadian"/>
        <category label="Music"/>
        <category label="English"/>
        <category label="Français"/>
        <category label="Inuktitut"/>
        <category label="Contest"/>
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        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Launch of pixelfed.ca]]></title>
        <id>https://fedecan.ca/en/announcements/2025-02-19-pixelfed_launch</id>
        <link href="https://fedecan.ca/en/announcements/2025-02-19-pixelfed_launch"/>
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        <updated>2025-02-19T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[We are excited to announce pixelfed.ca, a new Pixelfed instance run by Canadians and hosted in Canada. Pixelfed is a free and open-source alternative to image sharing platforms such as Instagram.]]></summary>
        <author>
            <name>Fedecan</name>
            <uri>..</uri>
        </author>
        <category label="Fediverse"/>
        <category label="Platform"/>
        <category label="Image Sharing"/>
        <category label="Pixelfed"/>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Finances & New Server]]></title>
        <id>https://fedecan.ca/en/announcements/2025-01-18_update-finances-new-server</id>
        <link href="https://fedecan.ca/en/announcements/2025-01-18_update-finances-new-server"/>
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        <updated>2025-01-18T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Hello everyone, we're long overdue for an update on how things have been going! Finances: Since we started accepting donations back in July we've received a total of $1350, as well as $1707 in older donations from smorks. We haven't had any expenses other than OVH (approx $155/mo) since then, leaving us $2152 in the bank. ]]></summary>
        <author>
            <name>Shadow</name>
            <uri>https://lemmy.ca/u/Shadow</uri>
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        <category label="Fedecan"/>
        <category label="Finances"/>
        <category label="New Server"/>
        <category label="Infrastructure"/>
        <category label="Server Migration"/>
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        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Canvas 2024]]></title>
        <id>https://fedecan.ca/en/announcements/2024-07-15_canvas-2024</id>
        <link href="https://fedecan.ca/en/announcements/2024-07-15_canvas-2024"/>
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        <updated>2024-07-15T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Thank you to everyone that participated, it was fun! You can see our piece of the 2024 Fediverse Canvas event here.]]></summary>
        <author>
            <name>Otter</name>
            <uri>https://lemmy.ca/u/otter</uri>
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        <category label="Canvas 2024"/>
        <category label="Fediverse Events"/>
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    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Lemmyvision 2024]]></title>
        <id>https://fedecan.ca/en/announcements/2024-04-08_lemmyvision-2024</id>
        <link href="https://fedecan.ca/en/announcements/2024-04-08_lemmyvision-2024"/>
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        <updated>2024-04-10T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[See the nominations and our final submission for the 2024 Lemmyvision event. For more information on Lemmyvision, you can see the details below: "I’d like to invite you to participate in Lemmyvision, a Eurovision-like Song Contest for Lemmy communities around the world ! I’d love for people across Lemmy to participate, and I hope it will bring people together through our diverse taste of music, so join us if you’d like to discover new music and culture from around the world!"]]></summary>
        <author>
            <name>Otter</name>
            <uri>https://lemmy.ca/u/otter</uri>
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        <category label="Lemmyvision"/>
        <category label="Canadian"/>
        <category label="Music"/>
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    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Non-Profit Incorporation & Next Steps]]></title>
        <id>https://fedecan.ca/en/announcements/2024-04-08_incorporated</id>
        <link href="https://fedecan.ca/en/announcements/2024-04-08_incorporated"/>
        <link rel="enclosure" href="https://fedecan.ca/img/social-share.png" type="image/png"/>
        <updated>2024-04-08T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[We are pleased to announce that Fedecan has been officially incorporated as a not-for-profit organization! We recently crossed the first anniversary for many of us on Lemmy and the Fediverse, and we are thrilled to announce this important milestone.]]></summary>
        <author>
            <name>Fedecan</name>
            <uri>..</uri>
        </author>
        <category label="Fedecan"/>
        <category label="Non-Profit"/>
        <category label="Admin"/>
        <category label="Finances"/>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[2023 Instance Census Results]]></title>
        <id>https://fedecan.ca/en/announcements/2024-02-10_censusResults</id>
        <link href="https://fedecan.ca/en/announcements/2024-02-10_censusResults"/>
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        <updated>2024-02-10T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[This data was originally shared on Lemmy. This page has improved visualizations that can take advantage of the website format. Thank you to everyone who took the time to fill out the census! This was an exciting year, and for a lot of users it was their first year on lemmy.ca (and the fediverse in general).]]></summary>
        <author>
            <name>Otter</name>
            <uri>https://lemmy.ca/u/otter</uri>
        </author>
        <category label="Census"/>
        <category label="Lemmy"/>
        <category label="Locations"/>
        <category label="Demographics"/>
        <category label="Usage Statistics"/>
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