We aren’t really a big instance. We don’t even make the top-20. Where we really hit above our weight though is our comment count.
We are medium in size, but we are super engaged.
- Pons_Aelius ( @Pons_Aelius@kbin.social ) 31•1 year ago
Well, it only takes a few Galahs to make a shit load of noise.
- ⸻ Ban DHMO 🇦🇺 ⸻ ( @unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone ) English15•1 year ago
I’m pretty sure that Australia, Aussie Environment and Melbourne are some of the most active location based communities on Lemmy
- Ilandar ( @Ilandar@aussie.zone ) 15•1 year ago
The Melbourne community in particular. Crazy levels of interaction in those daily discussion threads.
- ⸻ Ban DHMO 🇦🇺 ⸻ ( @unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone ) English10•1 year ago
Yeah Melbourne has been going crazy since the start, really amazing how much of a community they’ve established here
- OmanMkII ( @OmanMkII@aussie.zone ) 6•1 year ago
Plus we have to be vocal about the dangerous levels of DHMO in our water supply, excessive consumption can be fatal
- ⸻ Ban DHMO 🇦🇺 ⸻ ( @unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone ) English3•1 year ago
Scientists predict ~80% of the human body is DHMO, when will the pollution stop?
- Aussiemandeus ( @Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone ) 4•1 year ago
What’s DHMO? I know i can google but that’s less engagement
- ⸻ Ban DHMO 🇦🇺 ⸻ ( @unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone ) English3•1 year ago
Dihydrogen Monoxide http://www.bandhmo.org/
- Aussiemandeus ( @Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone ) 3•1 year ago
Ohhhh yeah everyone that has ever contacted it has died. It’s really bad
- 𝚝𝚛𝚔 ( @trk@aussie.zone ) English14•1 year ago
I’m honestly surprised Lemmy hasn’t taken off more than it has. Reddit’s actions make it such an unattractive option, but people are still returning there in the hopes of getting an upvote and a crappy useless award.
Anyway, I’ll keep posting stuff and participating here.
Just need a few more people to generate the topics and engagement will follow exponentially. I just don’t lead an interesting enough life to come up with much.
It’s tricky - I want it to grow, but I don’t want to lose the culture we have here. Having run forums 20+ years ago, I know that keeping that balance of culture and growth is super difficult.
Every time, you hit a critical point and suddenly it’s a site of random strangers with no community feeling. Reddit hit that point over a decade ago. I don’t want to repeat that here if we can avoid it.
- 𝚝𝚛𝚔 ( @trk@aussie.zone ) English6•1 year ago
On the one hand, yes.
On the other hand, you need enough content being created to provoke discussion.
I don’t feel we have enough content at the minute. I reckon the active population needs to double. Maybe we need to give away stubbie coolers.
Maybe bumper stickers? What about…
‘Lemmy Happens’
- 𝚝𝚛𝚔 ( @trk@aussie.zone ) English4•1 year ago
“Don’t follow me, I’m a Lemming”
“If you can read this, then you’re not on Lemmy.”
- 𝚝𝚛𝚔 ( @trk@aussie.zone ) English3•1 year ago
“… unless you’re on your phone, which you shouldn’t be because you’re driving.”
- Aussiemandeus ( @Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone ) 3•1 year ago
Everyone here is a stranger to me, but i never look at the names of people i engage with.
This is where the avatars come in. I don’t pay much attention to the usernames, either. But those little avatars stick in your mind and you start to remember people.
Yes, everyone is still a stranger, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t community.
- 𝚝𝚛𝚔 ( @trk@aussie.zone ) English1•1 year ago
Voyager (and Connect by the sounds) don’t display avatars or custom usernames so you lose that bit of customisation in at least some of the apps.
I think I prefer it. Avatars are usually bad anime anyway. I think mines a ghost face lady.
Huh. You and @Aussiemandeus have probably just answered why I keep defaulting back to Jerboa. I have most of the Lemmy clients installed, and cycle through them. I usually use Jerboa for aussie.zone - I thought that was because it was the first one I had. Now I think it’s for the avatar support.
- Lodion 🇦🇺 ( @lodion@aussie.zone ) 2•1 year ago
Sync also has an option to enable avatars. I can’t use any client that doesn’t have avatars available. I’m too used to identifying people by their avatars… and now emojis and OP/admin tags.
Aaaaand Sync has become my default app.
I’ll probably give that one money, because I trust they’ll actually incorporate mod tools at some point.
- Aussiemandeus ( @Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone ) 1•1 year ago
I forgot about avatars, i use connect and they don’t show up unless i go into peoples profiles.
- Franzia ( @Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 1•1 year ago
I cross-post to Discord on occasion, and bring up some of the drama with friends who enjoy a bit of drama.
We are trapped in the hug box hehe.
- zoe ( @zoe@lemm.ee ) 4•1 year ago
as a sign of acknowledgement, i will sign up to ur instance and add extra load to ur server, ur welcome :)
Well, either you did or someone read this and signed up with zoe to beat you to the name.
- zoe ( @zoe@lemm.ee ) 2•1 year ago
its a-me, a-mario, i already did sign up ;)