Enjoying exploring Aussie Zone so far. Thanks to @lodion, i think, for hosting! I’m an endemic lurker coming over from Reddit. Trying a few things on ‘Jerboa for Lemmy’, learning the ropes, so sorry for editing and other mistakes, please let me know when I make them.

To the actual point of the post,

Theres a few different spots, other instances/communities, that I’s wondering if ‘Aussie Zone’ should/can link the feed to. So we can begin to coalesce an Aussie user base, without all having to pile into the one instance, or individually find these other places and have duplication across communities of similar topics.

For example there is, lemmy.perthchat.org (instance) australia@lemmy.ml (community) lemmy.nz (instance) (would probs be good to keep tabs on these dodgy lookin fellas) And i’m sure there are others,

Maybe i’ve got the wrong end of the stick, but it seems like we could end up with several concurrent ‘Australia’ chats leading to fragmentation and reduced engagement as a result?

Sorry for the essay.

  • Paradoxvoid@aussie.zone
    4·
    1 year ago

    If you want to compare it to how it works on Reddit, you can imagine that each Community across different instances is its own subreddit - the only thing Reddit enforces is uniqueness to the subreddit name. In that way, you can have /r/Australia and /r/Straya, and people will congregate on one or the other for one reason or another. Though the name uniqueness does funnel people into a certain spot as there’s only one ‘instance’ - reddit itself.

    I think if Lemmy had something like multireddits, so you could subscribe to similar communities under a single banner, that would go a long way to addressing the fragmentation problem - in the meantime it’s probably up to instance owners/mods to try and direct people to other similar communities to reduce the impact. 🤷‍♂️

    • Lodion 🇦🇺@aussie.zoneM
      4·
      1 year ago

      Yeah I’d like to see “multicommunities” in Lemmy’s future. It would definitely help combat community fragmentation. Though it may also increase community confusion :)

      • a1studmuffin@aussie.zone
        1·
        1 year ago

        Agree. It would be nice to subscribe to things by topics like #australia or #melbourne, and let the federation from your instance sort out the rest.

        Btw thanks for setting up this instance! I was considering something similar, but don’t need to bother now. 😁

    • Gorgritch_Umie_Killa@aussie.zoneOP
      1·
      1 year ago

      Yes! That example of /r/Straya and /r/Australia is good. Subscribing to similar communities under a single banner is basically what I had in mind. But as you say, as long as users who have been here longer can help direct others, then its word of mouth and users own discoveries. I’m interested to watch this progress.