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While the news has been all about lemm.ee reaching second-largest status in the Fediverse, check out aussie.zone comment counts (the-federation.info)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/meta@aussie.zone
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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.

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[–] 33 points 2 years ago

Well, it only takes a few Galahs to make a shit load of noise.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The Melbourne community in particular. Crazy levels of interaction in those daily discussion threads.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Plus we have to be vocal about the dangerous levels of DHMO in our water supply, excessive consumption can be fatal

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    What's DHMO? I know i can google but that's less engagement

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I like your posts, and appreciate the commitment to keeping things updated.

    My folks are very environmentally conscious, to the point where most of my inheritance has been given / will be given to various environmental charities. I'm not mad - it's their money, they earned it, and trying to save the world is probably a better way of spending it than I would have done.

    It does mean I can feel a bit comfortable about my slacktivism though.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    They gave a good start in life. It's up to me to make the most of the opportunity.

    Honestly I wish more families would take this approach. It would remove the problem of inter-generational wealth which is a huge problem in class divide.

    There'd still be some discrepancy due to better assistance at the start of life, but at least it wouldn't be the unabridgable gap that exists now between the working class and extremely wealthy.

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    • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] [S] 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Maybe bumper stickers? What about..

    'Lemmy Happens'

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    "Don't follow me, I'm a Lemming"

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Everyone here is a stranger to me, but i never look at the names of people i engage with.

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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    • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    We are trapped in the hug box hehe.

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    [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    as a sign of acknowledgement, i will sign up to ur instance and add extra load to ur server, ur welcome :)

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    • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    I'm not in your instance but appreciate your posts and comments

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