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Daily thread - Mid Week, Mid Winter

welp, if nobodsy else is going to post this, why not?

today is the winter solstice. sunrise where i am in regional victoria was at 7:32am, and sunset will be at sometime close to 5:10pm. this is the least amount of daylight we have for the entire year.

it's also negative 2 degrees here and my front lawn is covered with ice. why can't it rain? clouds are like a blanket keeping the place warm at night, and rainwater is warmer than the air at this time of year ...

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admins, please be aware that r/ModCoord is now recommending people migrate to the lemmyverse

there's gonna be another influx of fugees from reddit this week. i noticed there's only about 350 people on this server .. pretty sure that's gonna change.

anyway, here's the modcoord link - https://old.reddit.com/r/ModCoord/comments/14cr2is/alternative_forms_of_protest_in_light_of_admin/

lemmy had over 20 thousand new users signup in the space of a single hour a little while ago https://botsin.space/@threadcount/110567230856441064

it's going exponential

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Perfectly Cut Meows @lemmy.world Old Man Fire @aussie.zone
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need another junior mod?
  • that sounds fine by me. i think i might be running around like a decapitated chicken for the rest of the month seeing what needs to be done on which instance and all that, and i'm pretty sure Gigs will keep me busy once more people land in here

  • Anti-mod brigading going on within reddit?
  • when has the narrative ever changed away from that attitude? look at how mutahar has acted - knowing that we're doing the right thing but still throwing as much contempt into everything as he possibly can. the only times that people side with mods is when we're taking enormous damage so that general users don't cop it instead, or if there's a power-mad despot who should never have control of anything larger than a toy train

  • Supporting Aussie.Zone
  • so what's the full specs of the machine? would building one of them and then running it at home from an NBN connection be viable, or would it lag to hell more than lemmy's world about 12 hours ago?

    btw when it's time for money, i'll put one hand up and the other into my pocket. this is the sort of thing that i would be happy to fund.

  • Aussie Bush Doofs @reddthat.com Old Man Fire @aussie.zone
    okay let's go
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    Fire Twirling and Spinning @reddthat.com Old Man Fire @aussie.zone
    it's not a proper twirling session unless you have gotten at least one first-degree burn
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    community requests - live music (various)
  • yeh i suppose that's a good starting point and i'd let someone know if it was getting too clogged. i doubt that is going to happen for a few weeks at the very least tho, and by that stage i will very likely be in a position to be able to build an instance of my own

  • community requests - live music (various)
  • yes, they would be focused on the various live music scenes that they represent. i think live events would be more important for the entertainment industry than genre-focused communities which could easily be covered in other instances. being more activity-based than interest, i believe that they would benefit from a uniquely australian position

  • need another junior mod?
  • aww, thank you for your concern, but i'm not being troubled by the insomnia in the slightest, and i do prioritise myself immediately after my son because i need to be fit enough to be responsible for him

  • need another junior mod?

    i'm a single, stay-at-home insomniac parent so i'v got a ton of free time. bedtime is 2am and my alarm goes off at 7am. i can take orders.

    totally your call. i'm another one of those reddit fugees and am winding up the communities that i mod over there in the next two weeks. if you're not interested then -thumbs up-

    and if someone can tell me where the fuck my boat is ......

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    How can the fediverse scale and grow to large communities like Reddit without large infrastructure and servers? How can a non-profit driven platform afford to keep the lights on if this takes off?
  • the instance that i'm typing from is being hosted in someone's cupboard with some pretty off-the-shelf parts. i'v probably got enough parts for something similar laying around my house. if instances stay to low populations and the workload is distributed amongst all of them, it's not actually stressing the system all that much at all.

    that being said, as soon as the aussie zone sysadmin asks for financial assistance, i'll be putting my hand into my pocket. again, if enough people do that then it's not much of a cost at all

  • Why not just stop moderating?
  • the thing that did happen with digg that didn't happen with heaps of other websites was a negatively received UI change. people hated it.

    now, people deliberately don't use the reddit mobile app because it fucking sucks, and closing down the alternatives is a negative UI change ...

  • refugee
  • aye, the former mod of r/jailbait can have his cardboard castle and paper crown - let's build something better

    and the mods of r/australia can sit in the hole that they dug too

    SALUT, KANGA !!!!!! nice to meet ya

  • community requests - live music (various)

    the specific one that i'd be interested in modding would be "doofs" but there's also "festivals" and "clubs" and "gigs" because the four groups are, believe-it-or-not, quite diverse in tastes and would not be interested in going to each others' parties. also those groups are frikkin HUGE in reality, basically entire age cohorts. i'd be willing to mod them all or anywhere else you need until other people who want it more show up. i have experience modding, and even more being a junior mod who just takes orders and keeps their mouth shut. if i don't mod them, could you please create them anyway? any method of getting word out for gigs on the cheap is appreciated

    could i at least have "reggae" as well as doofs tho? fucken love aussie reggae as well as dance

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