- At 679 - 9 votes and 200 comments: YouTube Premium family plan price update ($17.99/month -> $32.99/month!) (by @trk@aussie.zone)
I think the Queenslanders are really carrying the instance, just like we carry the nation!
Look at this guy, wins one state of origin and is suddenly carrying the whole nation
Is this the new Australia Day?
Yes, sorry I didn't tell you earlier but you can have the day off
As long as it’s a public holiday.
No, it's the new Invasion Day (the day we invaded Lemmy).
I'd like to thank all the friendly, helpful people I've met, apologise for any steamy hot takes, and of course thank the mods for keeping us under control, and Lodion for standing up a place aussies can call home.
Honestly, I'd like to see more of the same, but with a growing user base. This place, and lemmy in general, deserves more eyes. Of course, that also brings risks and costs, but for discussion based communities, you need a 'critical mass'
I think your right about a need for critical mass.
Whether we should consider some kind of promotional campaign is probably a topic that should be discussed at some point. Be it of this instance specifically, or Lemmy in general, or even considering having sister aussie_zone instances and lean into smaller servers to create the whole.
Whether we should consider some kind of promotional campaign
I've been having a think as to the best way to go about this and I think we should be promoting Aussie Zone instead of Lemmy, just because it's easier for casual users to get their heads around:
I've thought a fun promotional tag would be,
Aussie_zone, the socials alternative
Possibly recognisable from a certain media outlet ;)
Its probably better to focus on aussie_zone and any future sister servers rather than lemmy or fediverse as a whole.
Its a broad church out there. Last night i's reading about the Maven AI controversy. People here on Aussie_zone might be cool with promotion, (also might not be), but others on Lemmy might not be, its not practical to check with everyone on every Lemmy server, and it'd not be nice to garner a perception of speaking for them.
even considering having sister aussie_zone instances and lean into smaller servers to create the whole.
Especially this, with all of the drama Lemmy.world causes (and is still causing - just got a test comment I sent on there last week today). It would all come down to what is more cost effective and how the parallel federation stuff helps in 0.19.5. I think something that would make this possible is to add another view (Subscribed, Local, All, Moderator View), call it "Curated" to have posts show up from the local feed of another instance or add communities to it (all under control of the Admins). That way if we had another instance we could encourage people to sign up there for load balancing, we could also run sister instances with different default settings (i.e. disabled downvotes or open community creation or open registration). A year ago it looked like the mods of some of the Australia related subreddits wanted to migrate their communities here. Interestingly they haven't stuck around, perhaps due to not getting power?
Sister instances would be my preferred option, it could mean we build the communities, but never have to sacrifice this instances culture by getting too large on a single instance.
Adding another view would be the way to go for sister instances to connect in a deeper way than the rest of the fediverse but still maintain some semblance of separateness.
It puts me in mind of the EU bloc, a supranational organisation, where the culture and way of life of the participating States is maintained, but many benefits of the closer connectedness are granted.
I'd be keen for a more descriptive view label than 'curated'. Maybe it could become an extra field that admins launching sister instances are able to fill in themselves. I guess this is something we'd have to approach lemmy developers about.
Giving them the ability to have a uniquely descriptive name could be fun though. In our case it could be Australasian Allied Instances (AAI), or Australasian Union of Federating Servers (AFUS), or my personal favourite "Warboss Gorgritch's Waargh on the Fediverse".
and, my mind is mush, i'm going to bed...
Happy anniversary everyone 🎉
Don't forget to post your dinner ideas in !foodaustralia@aussie.zone because I know you all eat. Cheers 🍺
Sorry I forgot to mention, I would like to thank everyone who reported comments and posts that don't align with our standards. It certainly makes the moderation process much easier
My claim to fame: I have the 38th (or maybe 39th? I don't think I was counting very accurately...) top post here complaining about AfterPay. Do I get a participation trophy?
I have the 3rd top post on the instance as a whole! I want a medal for that!
Here you go:
You'll have to chase up Melbourne if you want your medal for highest points
YAY! THANKS DHMO
I can't filter by community but you've got the most posts out of the regular posters:
Special shout out to @MHLoppy@fedia.io who has been doing a lot of posts here as of late and @Mountaineer@aussie.zone who made a lot of posts here in the beginning which really helped to get this community going.
"Be the change you want to see in the world".
Then a moderator was unhappy with my posts, so I stopped.
I'm sorry I did that, it was out of lack of experience and a knee-jerk reaction to reports from users who weren't happy about posts all being lumped in the one community. I'm not proud of the mess that was early on, and I've switched the priorities to look after this community first, and allow the others to grow in their own right alongside this one. Pretty much the advice you gave when questioned, just quite some time later. Thank you for your contributions to this community.
And thank you for modding.
I didn't want to call you out by name.
You've already noticed that I've transferred here as my official instance.
Challenge that moderator to 'Street Countdown', i bet they won't even show.
Procrastination is a hell of a drug
Ooh wow first place!
Nice to be noticed! Thanks for moderating ♥️
I think this is the wrong place if you care about points. You can easily get thousands of points on the other site reposting something popular from January's front page.
Here, we can get over 300 comments on a post with fewer than 20 points.
Oh, I guess it didn't really come across, but I was joking.
A place to discuss Australia and important Australian issues.
If you're posting anything related to:
If you're posting Australian News (not opinion or discussion pieces) post it to Australian News
This community is run under the rules of aussie.zone. In addition to those rules:
Congratulations to @Tau@aussie.zone who had the most upvoted submission to our banner photo competition
Be sure to check out and subscribe to our related communities on aussie.zone:
https://aussie.zone/communities
Since Kbin doesn't show Lemmy Moderators, I'll list them here. Also note that Kbin does not distinguish moderator comments.
Additionally, we have our instance admins: @lodion@aussie.zone and @Nath@aussie.zone