Gorgritch_umie_killa
@Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
Lot of good advice here about curation, thats definitely an option to leverage your subscribed feed.
Another option, is to remove yourself from the largest server (lemmy world), look at your options on other instances, theres hundreds. The label to the right of usernames should denote what instance people are connecting from.
Some examples are blahaj, midwest.social, sopuli, feddit…
The links below have lists of a lot of the available instances,
Advantages of Choosing a Smaller Server
The experience of the ‘Local’ tab seems to be genuinely different from Lemmy World.
Lemmy World probably doesn’t look too different whether you sort by the ‘all’ tab or ‘local’ tab, so you really only have the ‘subscribe’ tab to find and hone your niche on the network.
Going for a smaller, but active in its own right, instance means you suddenly have a ‘local’ tab that is highly differentiated from the wider lemmy network, andgoing along with that its often a bit less political.
I’d use my own as an example here, but we’ve just had a major election in Australia, so its been pretty political lately, i’m expecting that to subside now that the chooks are counted.
- Comment on News and Politics in /c/australia: "She'll be right", or "not on, mate"? 4 days ago:
From what i’ve seen so far on here, i think you’re hovering around the same space i’m at. I think theres a lack of diversity of sources.
AZ seems always at risk of becoming a Guardian and ABC news reposting site. It makes sense, they are the so readily accessible and very high quality sources in their own rights.
But i don’t think its great for AZ as a value proposition for continuing and new users. It also means that conversation might become stalted and defined by the Guardian and ABC outlooks, again not bad, but diversity of voices is useful.
I’m not talking Murdoch propaganda trash btw, links need to have a certain connection to reality.
I’ve thought for a while now, the best way to do this would be for a cadre of the continuing posting users adopting a diversity of sources mantra with their posting. It takes more work, but the result could deliver a more valuable proposition to the rest of the users looking through the communities.
I act on this as a personal mantra with my posting in c/AussieEnviro, and c/Perth/Western Australia, i need to get myself organised to do the same with c/rage.
The glaring problem is, of course, the diversity of sources doesn’t result in high upvote numbers, so its a principle that seems to lack user engagement, (with some exceptions). I don’t know why that is, maybe a confort thing of knnowing ABC and Guardian, or maybe too many articles from different sources are a bit too obscure for the mainstream AZ user. I don’t know.
- Comment on Should police have the power to arrest demosnag dealers who don't accept EFTPOS? 1 week ago:
This is due to the AEC fat cats and their big government inefficiency. The Bunnings hostile takeover of the SSM will sort this out!
Its time to get Big PNC outta my sausages!
- Comment on [Satire] Bunnings announces hostile takeover bid for all 8,000 polling booths to regain control of sausage sizzle market 1 week ago:
“SSM” 😂
- Comment on The year housing turned toxic was captured in a talkback chat with PM 3 weeks ago:
Well damn, thats a good point about the irony.
But i don’t know, i’ll have to whackbit up on my servers c/meta for a final admin decision. Just thought i’d float the odea alongside this post today.
- Comment on The year housing turned toxic was captured in a talkback chat with PM 3 weeks ago:
Its such an issue. And the self centered voting patterns of the country has killed so many meaningful reforms that could have built up to really tackle the problems by now.
- Comment on The year housing turned toxic was captured in a talkback chat with PM 3 weeks ago:
Hmm, definitely not married to the name ‘safe as houses’, but ‘housing crisis’ i dislike to describe the current problems.
‘Housing Crisis’ suggests the problem is new, or relatively short term. That it wasn’t predicted by every bumbling goofball and their dog as countries announced tax incentives, or bank deregs, or whatever housing policies have led to the market in its current state where-ever you live.
But also, i’s thinking of having a broader mix, rather than the shitshow of housing in western markets, but articles about Indonesian housing, or Fijian, Mexican, anywhere really.
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- Comment on Record enrolment [98.2%] ahead of 2025 federal election | AEC 4 weeks ago:
Its a nice theory, but the people who stand in line saying, “the majors are as bad as each other, i’m gona send them both a message”, kind of undermines the idea.
I’d say it’d be a more uniform shift down in lower turnout than you’ve suggested across the political spectrum. But interestingly it’ll be of the more moderate sections of each political side. Thereby over time reducing the points of commonality between the Party’s resulting in increasingky hateful political partisan rhetoric and policies. So what has happened in the USA.
- Comment on Go Private? 5 weeks ago:
So my non-technical view is it’d be better to stay public. I don’t know the costs for resources, so i’ll leave that for others.
Staying open
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People perusing the internet could find useful information on the communities here.
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The views of normal people probably want to be visible on the internet in these times, i think AZ excels at delivering a space for reasonable people. Whether its AI crawlers getting skewed to psychotic, or average people trying to find a space that isn’t so extreme, i think the more visible reasonableness is the better.
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the reddit argument. This is a clone of reddit afterall, and a mantra of reddit was to be ‘the front page of the internet’. Doesn’t mean we have to stay the same, but we should consider the departure from that idea and its implications.
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Do we know the route that people take to become new users? We don’t want to block off that route.
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Sometimes it can be useful for me to quickly look at communities without logging in, in the browser. Just to see what a post or feature in a particular community looks like. Its a niche use, and it wouldn’t be a big hassle to go without.
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- Comment on Aussie Lemmyvision - closes 31st March 2025. Today! :o 1 month ago:
Okay, AZ is submitted.
Any late ballots we’ll include if an extension is called. But we’ll defer to any announcements from you on that subject.
Cheers! :)
- Comment on Aussie Lemmyvision - closes 31st March 2025. Today! :o 1 month ago:
Cheers mate!
- Submitted 1 month ago to australia@aussie.zone | 6 comments
- Comment on 'Public schools do the really heavy lifting' and will finally be 'fairly' funded 1 month ago:
I don’t really get from the article whether its just Queensland thats the lagard, and now they’re also on the gonski reform path but will be behind everyone else, or whether the other jurisdictions had to wait for Queensland, and now gonski can be implemented in all States at the same time?
- Comment on Reminder: 🎶 aussie.zone Lemmyvision 2 voting ends on Monday 🎧 1 month ago:
Haha, at this stage i think we’d better go for non-compupsory preferential voting.
So yeah, vote for as few as you like. ;)
- Comment on Issues 23/3/25 1 month ago:
I’s thinking something was up today!
- Comment on “I Want Every Young Mum Back In The Office Permanently” Says Multimillionaire Childcare Profiteer 2 months ago:
Okay, this ones hard. Because i don’t know how much of thisbis true, and how much is Betoota being betoota.
Like, they almost sound like they’re just reporting his movements and what he’s saying here. 😂
- Comment on Is there an Australian equivalent for boycotting american products ? 2 months ago:
This is a good (readable) guide Avoiding unfair business practices - a guide for businesses and legal practitioners - ACCC
This is the legislation, COMPETITION AND CONSUMER ACT 2010 a hard read, but as they say in theguide above, theres no substitute for the Act.
I wanted to go on a big speil and talk about it a bit, but i’ve not had mych time to sit down. Suffice to say i think we have really well reasoned country of origin legislation, and consumer protection generally in this country. Even if its appliaction isn’t always ideal.
- Comment on Is there an Australian equivalent for boycotting american products ? 2 months ago:
Theres a list of Aussie made goods here Australian Made
- Comment on Facebook searches for Cyclone Alfred were blocked for containing content breaching 'community standards' 2 months ago:
I think you’ve misread what the commenter wrote.
- Comment on If you are “deemed not to be doing what you are told you will suddenly find out missiles won’t fire and planes won’t fly 2 months ago:
There is a growing group of people, myself included, loudly saying we need to rationalise and rebalance our tax system, Stephen Mayne and Alan Kohler, & Ken Henry (of course), being people who often speak really well on this subject.
- Comment on If you are “deemed not to be doing what you are told you will suddenly find out missiles won’t fire and planes won’t fly 2 months ago:
So, the links don’t work anymore so i wonder if the articles been retracted.
But, assuming its not,
The Royal Air Force is focused on buying more F-35s, of which there are currently only 32, and ensuring its new combat aircraft, Tempest, secures future funding.
How does staying the course on this US led platform make sense for any partner Service?
The army source said “we need reserve bases” across the country so reservists with busy day jobs do not have to travel far to carry out training. “That will keep the number up. If you have to travel 50 miles you can’t balance that with life.”
This is a good idea that Aus should also apply. We also need to relax the conditions of ‘Able’ bodied, or more importantly restrict the scope by which claims can be made against the military for injuries incurred during service. Its probably overboard, and costly in manpower and resources.
- Comment on Tasmanian cider gum ferment 'a drink that shaped Australia' 2 months ago:
Oh interesting, thats part of the same family as Geraldton waxs, the myrtles? I can see that kind of thing going really well with gin. Next time i have some, i’ll have to pick some and infuse it myself, see if its good.
- Comment on Australia accuses China of 'unsafe' fighter jet move 2 months ago:
Yeah, its definitely noticeable. The problem for them is it undermines legitimate points they might make at times. Especially when they target a smaller platform like AZ.
- Comment on Australia accuses China of 'unsafe' fighter jet move 2 months ago:
The PM has been on the phone this week putting Australia’s case to gain an exemption from US tariffs on alluminium and steel.
A key talking point was the fact that we need good supply of these for our airline industry.
Oh, and btw this incident involving an Australian surveillance plane just occurred with China.
Whether its a bit of good luck, or Australia and China nodding at each other about US tariffs. Or whether it Australia acting of its own accord.
This has now become a billboard demonstration for the US executive of why Australia must maintain these industries.
side note:
- Does OP ever post anything but negative stories about China? If this is the case, should we be engaging with their posts?
- Comment on The fundamental problem with housing in Australia 2 months ago:
The fundamental problem is that housing has become a product and an investment market, rather than the right outlined by Leo O’Connor 82 years ago.
Cutting immigration doesn’t fix this, so you’re incorrect.
- Comment on "Create" button spins forever for new post, but the post is created anyway 2 months ago:
Not me. But i’m mobile jerboa mostly.
It has some bugs itself, when loading the title to a post i find it loads quicker if i input the community field first, then go back to the generated post title. Its a weird bug, and it works so much quicker doing it that way around. If you read this far sorry for enticing you to read something that helps in no way with your issue :)
- Comment on Tasmanian cider gum ferment 'a drink that shaped Australia' 3 months ago:
Its so exciting people are starting to recognise and experiment with native Australian ingredients. They’ve been sat there in plain sight for so long, and are just so great.
I’s able to go to Wildflower a few years back, its a restaurant in Perth CBD with a focus on these ingredients. The things they did with things like desert lime, wattle seeds etc were so delicious, geraldton wax, the bold freshness of so much of it was really surprising.
The most surprising thing was the paired mocktails, infused again with all kinds of native australian ingredients. I’s having the paired wines, my partner was having paired mocktails, and the mocktails were so much better than the wines.
- Comment on friendlyjordies | manufacturing your consent. 3 months ago:
The video creator boils Jordies views down to, Labor won’t change the system, they just want to be in the drivers seat of the shitshow. A slightly unfair take, because the creator doesn’t look at Jordies’ reasoning.
Jordies’ reasoning is usually, Labor don’t have the power to get rid of the elite, everytime Labor try, they’re crushed. This is because being the party of government isn’t the only centre of power in this country. And while its very strong its a very transient form of power. Therefore Labor have to play ball to a certain extent with these other power centres, then setting up the best direction politically possible in the time they have.
Theres other systems Australia could move to, where power is distributed differently, as the video creator obliquely suggested. But the creator has an underlying assumption those undiscussed alternative systems would, in fact, be better for the country. And most importantly, that the Australian people would see and appreciate the benefits, readily agreeing.
But his critiscisms of Jordies are very valid. If i decide to listen I always take Jordies and crew as partially informed commentators, and not to be relied upon for your base of information on a subject.
- Comment on Are you a Coles patriot. Or are you a Woolies nationalist? 3 months ago:
The IGA shops are small businesses, there might be a few owners who are large enough, with multiple stores to call themselves medium size, but the vast majority are owner-operators.
The large conglomerate your referring to is called Metcash, they’re the primary wholesaler to IGAs but also wholesale to other shops. They also own the IGA brand in Australia at least, i don’t know if theres a North American connection with the IGA brand up there.
I wouldn’t assume they pay a better wage, thats almost certainly a store owners decision, which means it’ll vary store by store. Maybe Metcash might give ‘guidance’ but they don’t have direct control like Coles, Woolies, Aldi, Costco.
So, when you buy IGA more of the profits are remaining local with the owners of that store.
If i remember right Metcash’ assets are through product sales and brand ownership. This is also why Metcash will likely never be able to conpete properly with Coles, Woolies, Aldi, and Costco because all of those companies have the land and buildings their stores are situated on positively affecting their borrowing capacity, Metcash doesn’t have that therefore fundraising for expansion, or technology upgrades is more difficult.
That extra layer of (internal but not internal) wholesaler sales i believe is the reason why IGAs are slightly more expensive. But even then it depends on the type of IGA we’re talking about, there are some really fancy ones and some not so fancy ones.
I suppose everything i just wrote is based off knowledge over 10 years old now, but i think its largely still true.
