Hi all, I’ve been thinking of doing this post for a while. This community can seem like a bit of a blog at times with most posts coming from me, is there anything thats missing that you think could improve this space as a community?
I’m happy for it to continue as it is if the community is performing a use people like, but how its mostly turned out wasn’t the original intention.
The original intention for this community was to be an online space for West Australian fediversers, and anybody with an interest in Perth/WA, to communicate/share WA news and lifestyle posts.
I didn’t think being a carbon copy of the Perth Reddit would be very interesting, (which is why my personal posting has always favoured very local articles and news-media outlets to give a different flavour), but I always had the full understanding that I would be just one person of a community deciding what use this space should have, and that its nature should evolve over time.
I was once told that this community is ‘my thing’ which disheartened me, because since its beginning three years ago I’ve wanted and tried to support others’ involvement and their visions of what this space could be.
I’ve never done a post like this, but recently I’ve been getting a sense that maybe there is something about this space that is unwelcoming, but I can’t see what it is, so please tell me if theres something off-putting and we can change course.
At the end of the day I want this space to be a community for WA fediversers, and people who have any interest in the state, but I can’t do that on my own.
Excited to read people’s thoughts. 🙂 Thanks for your time.
Just wait. Reddit is quickly becoming more and more unbearable. I deleted my 9 year account because of this. I only found Lemmy and subsequently this page from looking for alternatives.
It seems to be getting traction. And unlike Bluesky. Is a lot more like the Reddit of old.
So just keep doing what you are doing. And they will come…
Thanks 🙂.
I’m slowly working on a more direct action approach as well. Building and waiting till they come is enough for some people to find these places. And if it was just c/perth/westernaustralia on my mind, I’d be happy to sit in this happy little corner with whoever comes along.
But I see the fediverse/social web as an incredibly valuable tool for average people to carve out their own spaces without the overwhelming dominance of a few ‘cultural elites’. (I hate that I used that term, but I can’t think of anything else). See one of my other comments in this thread for more of an explanation.
Out of interest, how have you found your way here?
I searched for it specifically.
I am from Perth. And the r/Perth subreddit was one of my most active.
Oh wow. You’re new, new only a couple day old account, sorry didn’t look before.
Welcome to the fediverse!
It can be a shit fight in some sections of this place, but when the ‘all’ feed gets too much I retreat back to my subscribed or my local instance.
You’re with lemmy.world so your local feed will likely be pretty US centric. If you want australian stuff just subscribe to a bunch of aussie.zone and quokk.au communities, or shift your account to a smaller (niche) server.
Your local is whatever that ‘instance’ is interested in. For example, aussie zone is interested in aussie stuff, whereas mander.xyz is an instance interested in the sciences so the local feeds are completely different. Lemmy.world’s niche is to be the broad based instance, leading to it being provably the most reddit-like experience.
I’m on both. The Aussie and World ones. It happened simply because Aussie on required someone to approve my application. Whereas the Lemmyworld one was insta approval.
Oh yeah, well that probably works out well for some things, I hear its useful to some to have an alt account.
Is it an alt account though? I’m using the same logins for both? Or is that purely on me?
Coming from Reddit to here is a bit of a change.
Unless I have completely misunderstood you or the meaning of alt account, then it absolutely is.
I think lets assume I’ve misunderstood what alt account means, because thats likely. I’ve never seen a use for them for myself, so never really had more than a casual understanding. If the primary use is to have an account that has no outward association with the other account, then I think I was using the term ‘alt account’ wrong.
In which case you simply have two accounts associated by name and network (network is, activitypub -> lemmy), but differing by instance (website). The separation by instance is the key difference. This means they are separate organisations participating in the same market. Whats acceptable on one site, might not be acceptable on the other. The difference between instances on lemmy is a bit like the differences between grocery stores. The instances all play in the same market (just like coles, woolies, aldi, iga, spudshed are all in the grocery market) and are similar. But you dont get all the same stuff from an IGA that you do from an Aldi. The quality can be vastly different, just like the difference between spudshed and woolworths. Of course we’re comparing organisations run for a profit to organisations run for socialisation and information dissemination purposes so the similarities stop somewhere 😆😆
As an in practice example, the site rules are similar but different. For instance the legal systems they refer to and rely on are different. Lemmy.world is likely governed and hosted in the US, whereas aussie.zone is hosted in Australia, and is explicitly governed by Australian law, in the first case. In front page sidebar ‘nothing illegal in Australia’ can be read as a declaration of the site owners preferred location of legal proceedings as well as indicating the legal structures to be applied while interacting with the site.