Can anyone clarify what this community is for? The only post here suggests it’s to replace the auslaw subreddit, which is mostly lawyers shit-talking about the legal profession and a lot of fun. However it’s got the same name as the auslegal subreddit, which is a train wreck of non-lawyers asking other non-lawyers legal questions and getting terrible hot takes and badly Googled answers in reply.

  • Treevan 🇦🇺@aussie.zone
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    1 year ago

    I’m not seeing much niche personalised content all over Lemmy; a lot is a rehash, an old meme, a RSS feed bot, or a news article (hopefully written by a journalist). I tried for a bit before falling into news as a regularity thing, there is only so much one person can write about on a personal level and the posting people aren’t here yet (or ever). Say what you want about news articles but c/environment is sneaking up the active user table and that would have been impossible to pull off without it.

    The only big change I can see is separating c/Australia from Aus Politics. News articles do tend to lean into politics more often than not and keeping them out of Australia sets an early standard. I don’t use the downvote and I don’t think its an effective tool to actually tell a poster where or what to post.

    I think throwing news into c/news is a good idea but it will be a full time job because a few that post news seems to be coming from another larger instance. c/Australia seems like the only obvious place to put it. I can’t even get people crossposting environment news into enviro, if I see them in the c/cities I will just leave it there now and try and not double up.

    I’d bet opinions and questions will likely localise into the city communities. Or the nightly threads that look like Mastodon microblogging from a distance.