Comment on Coalition tells Cop28 it will back tripling of nuclear energy if Peter Dutton becomes prime minister

• Treevan@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  6 months ago some of us asked not to split everything into multiple communities. I even thought c/cities should have been c/states initially to be more inclusive.

  Unfortunately, the majority tried to recreate reddit and then abandoned most of it.

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  • Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    For me, i’ve always treated c/Perth as WA in general, but i think thats more to do with having such a dominant city, for instance half of applecross is owned by wheatbelt farmers (i might be exaggerrating here lol). Perth as a stand in for WA kind of makes sense because almost everybody has a connection to it anyway.

    For somewhere like Queensland maybe it makes less sense though.

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    • Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      So i’d be down for name changes like this. Maybe c/Perth - WA, c/Melbourne - Vic

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      • Treevan@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It’s too late now but it could have been interesting to have tried something different than doing exactly what reddit evolved into. Evolution being a long process.

        Once I saw environment issues only being posted into cities, I knew it was too fragmented. The lack of crossposting on the apps, or posting to multiple at once, probably doesn’t help. And then your feed gets multiple repeats.

        Just can’t see a way around it.

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• DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Agree button.

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• unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Thanks for the feedback,

  I’ve been having a think about it and the divide between politics and news is always going to be difficult to maintain given how important politics is to our daily lives and people should be more informed.

  Also considering @WaterWaiver@aussie.zone’s comment, I think @Treevan@aussie.zone’s comment answers that. I think we were treating Aussie Zone more like a forum until we started to discover some of the limitations of federation. The segregation has always helped the local feed to be more organised and users can subscribe to only what they are interested in. A further discussion probably needs to be had surrounding the Australian News community, since a lot of that content could be helping this one to grow.

  Perhaps we should make a “Good News” community to balance out all of the bad news about Climate Change, Politics, the Economy, the wars in Gaza and Ukraine and Public Transport.

  What this all comes down to is the wishes of our users, our userbase has changed alot in the last few months with some disappearing and some new ones coming in from other instances

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  • WaterWaiver@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Several thoughts merged into one (pick any choose bits, not all or nothing):

    • c/Auslocal <- replacing /c/Syd /c/Melb etc. General discussion
    • c/AusGoodnews
    • c/Australia <- people posting politics will probably default to the general “Australia” regardless of what rules you try to put in. If you roll with that and intentionally keep it as a honeypot then it might be tolerable? ie don’t try and move the politics out of /c/Australia, instead move everything else out into c/AusGoodnews.

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    • unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Thanks for sharing these ideas.

      For the first idea: While it may increase exposure and activity, this might not be what people are after, likely only being interested in their own local community’s news. But on the other hand exposure is good if you want to ask a question about something to do with Australia in general but not get lost amongst politics and news.

      I like your thinking with the second two and they’re definitely actionable. The content segregation is always going to be an uphill battle because not everyone will read the sidebar - especially since it doesn’t get shown when creating a post making it almost useless. Perhaps we could repurpose the !news@aussie.zone community (currently called “Australian News”) for the purpose of interesting news.

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      • WaterWaiver@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        What’s the advantage of repurposing a community vs creating a new name?

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  • Treevan@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Don’t get me wrong, I’m a strong proponent of splitting general and politics.

    I didn’t like the Australia subreddit because of is 90% politics. I guess we could say splitting them “didn’t work on reddit” because the culture was so ingrained and that’s just the way it was.

    It was/is worth trying something new here.

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