Seems like there is an appetite from a few people from aussie.zone so that you guys can be kept up-to-date.

Pinging a few other people that are usually interested in this kind of stuff.

  • originalucifer
    15•2 months ago

    im all for non .world/ml communities. I believe for the fediverse to scale, we need to spread communities out… especially popular ones.

    that said one of the benefits of an ‘ask’ community is inherently eyeballs. the more people that see the question might have have input. people are difficult to herd into new things

    • Blaze (he/him)OPEnglish
      7•2 months ago

      that said one of the benefits of an ‘ask’ community is inherently eyeballs. the more people that see the question might have have input. people are difficult to herd into new things

      Very valid point. On the other hand, even [email protected] isn’t that active (an argument brought up about people complaining with the new rule about no US politics - it’s not that busy in the first place), so we could maybe counter that by having a more active community, and promote it on the usual channels

    • asudoxEnglish
      2•2 months ago

      I am not the owner of the [email protected] community, and I can’t just redirect people to a new community on another instance in a community I don’t own. You oughta ask the owner for that.

      • Blaze (he/him)OPEnglish
        2•2 months ago

        Also, would you be interested in modding an Ask community elsewhere, or do you have enough on your plate with the LW one?

        • asudoxEnglish
          1•2 months ago

          Yeah sure. Though I’m not really sure if I can be an active mod with the way things are right now.

          • Blaze (he/him)OPEnglish
            2•2 months ago

            That’s good to hear, thanks! Regarding the instance, would you have a preference? I know you have currently on programming.dev, but based on !meta[email protected], they seem to have a few issues lately (corrupted database), so I’m not sure I would like to host the community over there

    • ProdigalFrogEnglish
      1•2 months ago

      Perhaps Lemmy.Cafe?

      Lemm.ee and Lemmy.zip are both quite large and active instances (with 3,000 and 500 active monthly users, respectively), where as .Cafe is still quite small, which would help spread the load better.

      Appealing aspects:

      1. Established and trusted instance with an active admin
      2. Updates to the latest lemmy versions quickly
      3. Defederated with only a handful of extreme instances, giving it excellent reach across the threadiverse
      4. Participates in Lemmy-Federate, making it easier for a new community to get started
      5. General use instance, making any community appropriate

      I’m going to be moving a couple of my communities from Lemmy.World to .Cafe shortly, and the admin was more than happy to host them when I asked, so I imagine he’d feel the same about an Ask community. Something to consider at least. :)

  • Atelopus-zeteki
    2•2 months ago

    Totes into it! As a northerly person, I appreciate an southerly perspective. Do it!!

      • Atelopus-zeteki
        2•2 months ago

        When I was finishing my education, Australia was on my short list. Keeping international connections is one way of reminding myself that we live on the 3rd rock from our star, in the midst of a vast emptiness. Gotta make the most of what we have. Cheers!

    • OpenStarsEnglish
      1•2 months ago

      Oh wow, I just happened to glance at this - b/c I do so enjoy reading anything that you write:-) - but I should tell you: pinging a user is non-functional currently on PieFed. :-( Even though it has so many promising new features above & beyond what Lemmy offers, this is an example of something simple & basic that it lacks - so overall I’ve switched to now saying that it does not yet have feature parity (though hopefully such will come soon, both on this feature and so many others!:-).

      • Blaze (he/him)OPEnglish
        2•2 months ago

        Let me know if you still check your discuss.online, if yes I’ll ping it next time

        • OpenStarsEnglish
          2•2 months ago

          Yes - not daily but especially it helps to get over some of the federation issues, which hopefully when LW upgrades to 0.19.6 will become less of an issue.

  • ZagorathEnglish
    2•2 months ago

    Looking at it now, the LW version of that community would be great, were it not for LW’s severe federation problems.