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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.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

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

we could maybe counter that by having a more active community

🙄

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

@[email protected], you seem to be the most active dev on the [email protected] community, have you ever thought about moving it to another instance, to limit the LW centralization?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

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

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

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

As I stated in another comment, lemm.ee and lemmy.zip are generic and well managed, so I would say one of those two.

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

lemm.ee then I guess

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

Interesting to see "owner" for a community, I usually use "top mod". Anyway, is this [email protected] in this case?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yep, he seems to be the current owner.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Potential instances:

  • lemm.ee
  • lemmy.zip

If you have any other in mind, feel free to suggest.

The aussie.zone admin already said they would prefer aussie.zone to stay Australia-centric: https://aussie.zone/comment/13030189

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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. :)

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

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

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

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

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!:-).

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

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

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

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

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

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

Indeed, that's the main issue with it