Enjoying exploring Aussie Zone so far. Thanks to @lodion, i think, for hosting! I’m an endemic lurker coming over from Reddit. Trying a few things on ‘Jerboa for Lemmy’, learning the ropes, so sorry for editing and other mistakes, please let me know when I make them.
To the actual point of the post,
Theres a few different spots, other instances/communities, that I’s wondering if ‘Aussie Zone’ should/can link the feed to. So we can begin to coalesce an Aussie user base, without all having to pile into the one instance, or individually find these other places and have duplication across communities of similar topics.
For example there is, lemmy.perthchat.org (instance) [email protected] (community) lemmy.nz (instance) (would probs be good to keep tabs on these dodgy lookin fellas) And i’m sure there are others,
Maybe i’ve got the wrong end of the stick, but it seems like we could end up with several concurrent ‘Australia’ chats leading to fragmentation and reduced engagement as a result?
Sorry for the essay.
While having distributed social networks is much better than the centralized models I do see the splintering of communities into separate instances as frustrating. Add to that the current difficulties in finding and subscribing to communities and it becomes a major hurdle for new users.
Not being a single quick “URL edit” away from an intended destination is… different. I’m sure there’s another easy way; I’m just yet to uncover it! I feel like you will need to remember which community lives in which federation? Or something?