Australia

It's nice to read this, its the exact reason I created this instance with the name it has🙂

Same here. I don't mind getting American news, but it's nice not being pushed seppo stuff for a moment.

It's been awesome putting the fediverse "Local" concept to good use. I think having multiple accounts makes sense for this alone, if you really enjoy browsing more than one particular instance.

I ended up with multiple accounts too (I couldn't get this instance to show up with a search on the first one). I'm happy I did though - there are less bugs when using an account on the same instance than from a federated site, and I am using the different accounts as custom feeds.

One thing I really like on this instance is that because community creation is not a free for all the communities all work together instead of being a random conglomeration. It also means the server is less likely to be overwhelmed as a few of the more open instances have been, and less likely to have the costs of maintaining it spiral out of control and become unsustainable.

I signed up with a few likely places. Avoiding the toxicity of US politics is an advantage though there are specialized little places like startrek.website or programming.dev that are very topic focused.

More general north american social media sites can't help it. There are some very reasonable people saying reasonable things but they are in an environment where they feel compelled to defend themselves constantly which gets tiring.

Rapid growth places stresses on larger instances. I would be concerned they might run out of money or burn out their admins. As long as we can keep @lodion supplied with coffee this instance looks like it might be sustainable.

I followed a few different Aussie subs so it's nice having them all in one place now.

Yes. It's great that this functions as a multi-sub for everything Australia by default. Then you can just filter the subs using subscriptions and blocks.

Happy for you guys. Greetings from non-EU Europe :-)

@sizz

Yes, yes I do.

I did exactly the same as you with the different accounts, but I found I've hung around our Aussie Zone the most and not really used the others. I was over the American dominance of my social media threads a while ago, but however I tweaked it the "popular" results were the same. I like it better here.

I just joined after already being on kbin social and lemmy world. It is nice to have an aussie instance. Also prefer the UI design here. (Edit I did not realise Lemmy updated.)

It's nice. Feels a little bit like a Whirlpool-Reddit baby.