As per this post, the closest place, i find, that we have on aussie.zone as a place to specifically share podcasts is c/onthetelly.
In lemmy looks like the most active general podcast community is on hexbear, and theres .ml and .slpk.net options as well. But they’re not very active.
My questions to the AZ community, (you can upvote/downvote the questions in the comment section to indicate your interest, if that works)
- Would people like a podcast community
- If yes, would they like an Australia/Oceania specific community, or wpuld they like a general community.
If people would like this, then as a podcast fanatic, I’d be well placed, and happy to, moderate and provide a base level of activity for the community.
Let me know what people think.
zero_gravitas@aussie.zone 4 hours ago
I’m generally supportive.
I do wonder if an Aus/Oceania-specific comm might struggle for activity and be better off staying rolled in with !onthetelly@aussie.zone.
The existing podcast comms have quite a lot of subscribers (the hexbear one has 20k). I wonder, if the aim is to get an active general podcast comm, if we’re not better off putting our efforts into reactivating those existing comms? Perhaps with some strategic cross-posting to !onthetelly where applicable? Unless, I suppose, there’s some issues with those comms, e.g. dodgy mods, or the host instance has been defederated by other instances.
Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone 3 hours ago
I did think about the idea of expanding the definition of c/onthetelly. Not sure how people would feel about that. Seems like a good idea to me.
I only saw the Hexbear community being reasonably active, and well, as you say, I just assumed that’d be pretty ideologically limited over there. And well, if its just for me I can post in those places.
But I don’t see a more specific aus-pod-com out there yet. And since I have a large amount of time weekly to listen to podcasts, and use that time to listen to Aus and international stuff, whatever people decide, it wouldn’t be much out of my way to post stuff.