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.
There was a mad rush to recreate subreddits without waiting to see what naturally formed.
Some of us suggested waiting with generalised communities to split them as required but fell on mostly deaf ears.
There will be hundreds of these orphaned “subs” all over. Is deleting them the best option?
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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.
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Looks good. You’re right, you have to start somewhere and early would be better long-term (less work later).
I agree with your sorting but it’s still a fine line to tell them apart. There is a recent one currently in Aus which is both environmental and political.
To move posts do you have to crosspost, then lock or delete in the original community? I guess old school forums were better in that regard, moving was simple for a moderator and left a nice forwarding link behind.
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When you post news every day, the koala one is ancient history which is why I said recent.
I need to get a different hobby.
I respect the hustle sir/mam/per.
I’m the Dude. So that’s what you call me. You know, that or, uh, His Dudeness, or uh, Duder, or El Duderino if you’re not into the whole brevity thing.
And I respect yours. Thanks for posting the car in to environment. I’ve been putting that sort of thing into [email protected] when I see them. Out of all the things to split out of environment, energy and renewables will be the first to go, I think. I skip a lot of the energy news hoping someone else will pick it up and run with it. I put a hard environment filter on energy, it has to be decently related. Could energy go into [email protected] and if politicians are fucking it up into !politics?
I’m glad you’re posting your mix in. We all appreciate it, I’m sure.
I understand the “build it and they will come” mentality. Without a place to start those discussions, I presume they won’t start at all.
I suppose it’s a bit of a question about how do we define what a sub is for and let people know? Even then, no guarantee people will run with it.
I think legally-themed communities are prone to falling into the pit of people asking for legal advice on the internet at the best of times. I know the mods at the auslaw subreddit, despite as clearly as possible saying “no legal advice, no real lawyer is going to answer you,” spend plenty of time removing legal advice requests or people saying “not asking for legal advice, but hypothetically, if I had a kg of meth down my pants, could the police search me? Just hypothetically?”
Well, the sidebar is about the only way. A series of stickied posts too maybe.
A moderator, usually the person that floats the idea of the community to the admin, would edit it in and explain the purpose.
I notice this hasn’t got a sidebar so there is no listed purpose. Since it got created to recreate reddit, we can assume the purpose was the same as over there?
Have you thought about messaging the admin and taking it over? You could be the one to build it?