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submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Would people be interested in a community dedicated to discussing lemmy's in general but, specifically aussie zone's growth?

I'm thinking a pretty wide ranging set of ideas including,

exposure and promotion of fediverse-lemmy-aussie zone,
discussions on server structures and dispersal of user-bases,
philosophical discussions on growth as an objective in the case of lemmy,
discussions on different platforms aussie zone users might want to gather round as the potential use cases of the federated social web start to be explored.

I'm thinking like [email protected] , but a sister community that has regard to aussie zone user's corner of the fediverse.

To be used by aussie zone as a general compass setting and project brainstorming community for how we might like to develop, if at all.

Or is [email protected] the better place for these sorts of discussions?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I wouldn't think it would be busy enough to warrant a community. Interesting posts in meta would better grow the community than a new super niche community.

One of the problems with the fediverse is the lack of niche communities to replace subreddits for those that migrated. However, forcing the issue won't create community but only dead communities.

Ilengsging posts In a mildly active community would be much better than lots of dead communities in the fediverse.

People will naturally find more communities and interests over time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Hmm, i've re-read your comment a fair bit over the last day, and i'm not sure we're talking about quite the same thing.

I'm not so much talking about creating another community in order to grow through the addition of one more niche community, (in which case i totally agree with you), i'm meaning to form a community dedicated to strategising other methods on how to grow aussie zone in particular and lemmy and the fediverse in general.

So my aim isn't so much additional content for entertainment, but a forum for us to discuss whats next.

My fear is, at the moment and from the outside, aussie zone - lemmy seems nice and friendly but, essentially a less busy version of reddit that is reasonably undiscoverable by the majority of people not looking specifically for it. That, i think will change eventually, and theres no reason to assume it will change in a positive direction on its own.

I also think that theres a lot of potential for the development of new social media alternatives through activity pub, and instead of commercial interests only taking up this opportunity, as the creators of lemmy have begun, theres room to create a more real 'online public square' but this takes public participation like aussie zone has.

I hope that explains my thoughts a bit more, so if people are happy to use the [email protected] for this, thats where i'll start posing these sorts of discussions.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I would be interested to know what happens around 4am every day when no posts load for about 45 mins (iOS).. but I really appreciate the hosting, so thanks

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

The daily server snapshot probably:

https://aussie.zone/comment/6694796

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I think this is a question for @lodion or @nath