Comment on aussie zone growth
hitmyspot@aussie.zone 2 months ago
I wouldn’t think it would be busy enough to warrant a community. Interesting posts in meta would better grow the community than a new super niche community.
One of the problems with the fediverse is the lack of niche communities to replace subreddits for those that migrated. However, forcing the issue won’t create community but only dead communities.
Ilengsging posts In a mildly active community would be much better than lots of dead communities in the fediverse.
People will naturally find more communities and interests over time.
Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Hmm, i’ve re-read your comment a fair bit over the last day, and i’m not sure we’re talking about quite the same thing.
I’m not so much talking about creating another community in order to grow through the addition of one more niche community, (in which case i totally agree with you), i’m meaning to form a community dedicated to strategising other methods on how to grow aussie zone in particular and lemmy and the fediverse in general.
So my aim isn’t so much additional content for entertainment, but a forum for us to discuss whats next.
My fear is, at the moment and from the outside, aussie zone - lemmy seems nice and friendly but, essentially a less busy version of reddit that is reasonably undiscoverable by the majority of people not looking specifically for it. That, i think will change eventually, and theres no reason to assume it will change in a positive direction on its own.
I also think that theres a lot of potential for the development of new social media alternatives through activity pub, and instead of commercial interests only taking up this opportunity, as the creators of lemmy have begun, theres room to create a more real ‘online public square’ but this takes public participation like aussie zone has.
I hope that explains my thoughts a bit more, so if people are happy to use the !meta@aussie.zone for this, thats where i’ll start posing these sorts of discussions.