Seems like there is an appetite from a few people from aussie.zone so that you guys can be kept up-to-date.

Pinging a few other people that are usually interested in this kind of stuff.

  • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
    9·
    2 months ago

    im all for non .world/ml communities. I believe for the fediverse to scale, we need to spread communities out… especially popular ones.

    that said one of the benefits of an ‘ask’ community is inherently eyeballs. the more people that see the question might have have input. people are difficult to herd into new things

    • Blaze (he/him)@feddit.orgOPEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      that said one of the benefits of an ‘ask’ community is inherently eyeballs. the more people that see the question might have have input. people are difficult to herd into new things

      Very valid point. On the other hand, even !asklemmy@lemmy.world isn’t that active (an argument brought up about people complaining with the new rule about no US politics - it’s not that busy in the first place), so we could maybe counter that by having a more active community, and promote it on the usual channels

  • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
    2·
    2 months ago

    Looking at it now, the LW version of that community would be great, were it not for LW’s severe federation problems.

    • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netEnglish
      1·
      1 month ago

      Perhaps Lemmy.Cafe?

      Lemm.ee and Lemmy.zip are both quite large and active instances (with 3,000 and 500 active monthly users, respectively), where as .Cafe is still quite small, which would help spread the load better.

      Appealing aspects:

      1. Established and trusted instance with an active admin
      2. Updates to the latest lemmy versions quickly
      3. Defederated with only a handful of extreme instances, giving it excellent reach across the threadiverse
      4. Participates in Lemmy-Federate, making it easier for a new community to get started
      5. General use instance, making any community appropriate

      I’m going to be moving a couple of my communities from Lemmy.World to .Cafe shortly, and the admin was more than happy to host them when I asked, so I imagine he’d feel the same about an Ask community. Something to consider at least. :)