I know other instances have grown a lot due to media attention, reddit making silly decisions or banning communities. Did anything similar happen or is this just a thing that thinged?

Edit: having a closer look, some of the names I thought were new are people who’ve had accounts for years but have mostly been posting to other instances so I didn’t see them. So maybe I’m only seeing them on higher-scoring local posts

  • Nath@aussie.zone
    12·
    9 days ago

    It’s a steady two or so new accounts per day. Occasionally Reddit does something silly and we get a wave of them, but that hasn’t happened for a few months.

    • stylusmobilus@aussie.zone
      12·
      9 days ago

      Reddit did something silly and I’m in the process of moving on. A few things actually.

      Lemmy was recommended as a good substitute, this instance seemed the best, so here I am.

      • Nath@aussie.zone
        6·
        8 days ago

        Bring it up occasionally when appropriate. Most active Redditors know about Lemmy already. Don’t get too spammy or you’ll find yourself in Reddit’s sinbin.

        We aren’t trying to steal Reddit’s userbase. We are not equipped to handle millions of users and frankly, the whole of Lemmy is not, either. The admin and moderation tools are not mature enough to deal with activity on Reddit’s scale. We’re happy to organically grow and while I think most users are either refugees or dual-citizens from Reddit, I’d be happier to pluck up users who have never been Redditors in the first place.

        • SlykeThePhoxenix@aussie.zone
          1·
          8 days ago

          I have gripes with Reddit.

          Well not Reddit themselves, but the moderators who run many of the large subs and Reddit’s inaction on the rampant censorship and biased moderation. And I mean both sides politically. Subs that represent countries, like Australia, states, or even cities should not have anonymous mods. Reddit needs to hand off moderation to the Country/State/City and have them appoint, and be responsible for moderators. Right now, it’s a free for all.

          And since Reddit isn’t obviously doing anything about it, the best thing we can do is give users an alternative to Reddit. That not only removes their monopoly and power, but lights a fire under their arse.

          So here I am, looking for ways to do that.

          • tuff_wizard@aussie.zone
            1·
            7 days ago

            Now we come to the messy point where a service becomes so integrated into the publics lives that maybe it should be considered a utility.

            Subreddits have often been taken over by a complete replacement of the mod team and people hate that but now you call for rules about who can run certain Subreddits?

            Should we be confirming the residency of mods here?

            I’m not pushing either direction but it gets messy fast.

            • SlykeThePhoxenix@aussie.zone
              1·
              7 days ago

              now you call for rules about who can run certain Subreddits?

              Yeah, you know, the subs that represent countries should probably be run by someone who officially represents that country. You can still have your anonymous, unofficial subreddits, no argument there. Just like how you have official Youtube and X accounts.

              Should we be confirming the residency of mods here?

              Why? It’s not using a official Australian domain, anyone can spin up a Lemmy instance on some random looking Australian domain and federate it. If it was using an official domain, like some gov.au one, then yes.

              • tuff_wizard@aussie.zone
                21·
                7 days ago

                A country is welcome to make r/Australiaoffical or something, if they care. I’m not sure why they would. Reddit has like 500 million users per week but id guess that half of that number are actual real individuals.

                It’s not the critical resource we all see it as.

                How big would this server have to get before you would want the Australian government involved?