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unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨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 ⁨6⁩ ⁨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 ⁨6⁩ ⁨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 ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    What’s the advantage of repurposing a community vs creating a new name?
    
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    unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    It’s less hassle and we get to retain the subscribers, however, a proper launch might create some more interest
    
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Treevan@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨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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