Hey, so we are currently less than 100 users so having users create communities is currently disabled. For most things, other communities on the Lemmyverse are a better fit.
However, location-based ones make a lot of sense. It sounds like you'd like a Wellington one. Anyone else want a region specific one?
I know I'm way too late, but seeing people ask for Otautahi makes me wonder if it would have been heckin cool to have Te Wai Pounamu, te whanaganui a tara and so forth for our regional stuff
We can't change the URL but I'm pretty sure I can change the displayed name if there's agreement. i.e. it will always be !southisland@lemmy.nz (unless we create a second community), but we can make the displayed name say something different. This is probably actually good for searching anyway.
Did you want to create a post in !southisland to see what the general consensus is?
I don’t want to step on @Dave@lemmy.nz 's toes as he seems to have given this instance much thought.
I actually just stole someone else's thoughts :P
I'm happy to point Trees type traffic to your community if you're wanting to build that up. However, I'm not sure that /r/trees was quite the same as an NZ medicinal cannabis one. @cnnrduncan@beehaw.org am I right that you're thinking of something a bit different to an /r/trees style sub?
If you're willing to drive this then I'm happy to support you in building your community. We can avoid a community like that here and point people to your community.
I'm wondering if we need some sort of wiki like reddit has, to help people find what they are looking for. Perhaps a pinned post to start with, but I feel eventually we will need a wiki (I don't think Lemmy has this, but there are plenty of options we can host to fulfill this need - with the caveat being I don't know of an option that will let you use your fediverse account to edit).
@cnnrduncan@beehaw.org@jennifilm@beehaw.org@cloventt@lemmy.nz Do you think the separation of Ōtautahi and Otago would be prudent or is a combined south island one ok? Maybe while there aren't many users, start with one for the south island, then split it up if it gets too hard to manage together?
I reckon starting more general with a South Island one and creating more specific communities if/when there's enough of us to actually justify it is a pretty good idea!