

So while lemmy.ca is a Canadian instance (hosted in Canada, run by Canadians, etc.), it’s federated and so you can still connect to communities everywhere else. I would recommend skimming through these two pages :)
https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/get-started
https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/lemmy/for-users/detailed-overview
Each community is free to decide what content belongs in it, and users are free to subscribe to the ones that match what they’re looking for. If it helps, you can find some more Canada specific communities here:
- pinned post of Canadian communities: https://lemmy.ca/post/2890824
- communities that were made on lemmy.ca: https://lemmy.ca/communities
I don’t know if we have a community specifically for Canadian news, but the country / province / territory / city communities generally fill that niche.
I personally prefer to only use my subscribed
feed (instead of all
) so that I can curate it the way I like it
On my end, both were pretty bad
Content moderation seemed to be non-existent, and the reports might as well have gone into the trash
Also no matter how much I tried to control the feed, I’d still get content that was gross (trypophobia), sexual, or chumbox like.