We aren’t really a big instance. We don’t even make the top-20. Where we really hit above our weight though is our comment count.

We are medium in size, but we are super engaged.

15 points

I’m pretty sure that Australia, Aussie Environment and Melbourne are some of the most active location based communities on Lemmy

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The Melbourne community in particular. Crazy levels of interaction in those daily discussion threads.

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Yeah Melbourne has been going crazy since the start, really amazing how much of a community they’ve established here

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Plus we have to be vocal about the dangerous levels of DHMO in our water supply, excessive consumption can be fatal

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I was watching Active Users and Environment passed Melbourne a week or so ago. They are comment heavy with a set amount of users posting as their Active Count has barely moved off of 200.

If Environment stopped posting, it would fall behind Melbourne and Brisbane quite quickly. It’s the excessive regularity that pushed it up there.

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excessive regularity

15 of the next 17 posts in my Local feed are your posts to Environment 🤣

I applaud your commitment to the Community, and the Instance!

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I intentionally went 24 hours without posts. I think 3 went in but so many interesting stories were missed.

Gotta keep up with the news cycle!

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I like your posts, and appreciate the commitment to keeping things updated.

My folks are very environmentally conscious, to the point where most of my inheritance has been given / will be given to various environmental charities. I’m not mad - it’s their money, they earned it, and trying to save the world is probably a better way of spending it than I would have done.

It does mean I can feel a bit comfortable about my slacktivism though.

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I don’t know how I feel about that. As long as you’re happy.

The world is so different, not helping one’s kids through late-stage capitalism seems like a journey for the child that doesn’t need to be taken.

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I’m honestly surprised Lemmy hasn’t taken off more than it has. Reddit’s actions make it such an unattractive option, but people are still returning there in the hopes of getting an upvote and a crappy useless award.

Anyway, I’ll keep posting stuff and participating here.

Just need a few more people to generate the topics and engagement will follow exponentially. I just don’t lead an interesting enough life to come up with much.

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It’s tricky - I want it to grow, but I don’t want to lose the culture we have here. Having run forums 20+ years ago, I know that keeping that balance of culture and growth is super difficult.

Every time, you hit a critical point and suddenly it’s a site of random strangers with no community feeling. Reddit hit that point over a decade ago. I don’t want to repeat that here if we can avoid it.

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On the one hand, yes.

On the other hand, you need enough content being created to provoke discussion.

I don’t feel we have enough content at the minute. I reckon the active population needs to double. Maybe we need to give away stubbie coolers.

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Maybe bumper stickers? What about…

‘Lemmy Happens’

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Everyone here is a stranger to me, but i never look at the names of people i engage with.

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This is where the avatars come in. I don’t pay much attention to the usernames, either. But those little avatars stick in your mind and you start to remember people.

Yes, everyone is still a stranger, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t community.

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We are trapped in the hug box hehe.

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as a sign of acknowledgement, i will sign up to ur instance and add extra load to ur server, ur welcome :)

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Well, either you did or someone read this and signed up with zoe to beat you to the name.

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its a-me, a-mario, i already did sign up ;)

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