Australia
A place to discuss Australia and important Australian issues.
Before you post:
If you're posting anything related to:
- The Environment, post it to Aussie Environment
- Politics, post it to Australian Politics
- World News/Events, post it to World News
- A question to Australians (from outside) post it to Ask an Australian
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Rules
This community is run under the rules of aussie.zone. In addition to those rules:
- When posting news articles use the source headline and place your commentary in a separate comment
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Recommended and Related Communities
Be sure to check out and subscribe to our related communities on aussie.zone:
- Australian News
- World News (from an Australian Perspective)
- Australian Politics
- Aussie Environment
- Ask an Australian
- AusFinance
- Pictures
- AusLegal
- Aussie Frugal Living
- Cars (Australia)
- Coffee
- Chat
- Aussie Zone Meta
- bapcsalesaustralia
- Food Australia
- Aussie Memes
Plus other communities for sport and major cities.
https://aussie.zone/communities
Moderation
Since Kbin doesn't show Lemmy Moderators, I'll list them here. Also note that Kbin does not distinguish moderator comments.
Additionally, we have our instance admins: @[email protected] and @[email protected]
This is true on almost all social media. There's an inherit USA assumption. People with kick off topics in news, pics, funny, tv, sports etc assuming you're in their context.
It's the most populous English speaking country so it's not that weird an assumption, even if you're not American. There are more English speakers in the United States than in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa combined.
Learn how to curate, jeez
95% of my Lemmy browsing is on my subscriptions and local instance (aussie.zone). My subscriptions have a few communities on other instances.
I don't see a lot of US politics. Though I see more Australian politics than I'd generally seek out, to be honest.
Its not as bad as reddit was, imo
I've been going through and blocking news from Nepal, India, and a handful of Middle Eastern countries left right and center, most of which I can't understand because I don't speak their language. If you're not blocking the Lemmy subs that produce the stuff you don't want I'm not sure we can help you.
Seems to be an "internet problem" and not so much a "platform problem".
They're stupid, loud and oblivious of the world outside their borders.
Just look at the rest of the internet, there's no "com.us", they're the default.
I wonder why lol
I've blocked all of them, it really is a big improvement.
I think I have RSI from blocking gay porn communities
As an American, after getting somewhat comfortable with Lemmy, I've spent the last week since the blessed Boost app dropped blocking subs in All and local. Some of them are just active (politics), others are low effort pandering immature bullshit (political memes), even news-ish communities seem to have relatively high level of 24-hour biased political stuff. Might have to block them from local/all too.
My feed has definitely improved, I guess I took for granted how curated my feed was on Reddit, but pretty happy with what I have now after a bit of effort.
lemmy seems to do a 'better' job (if you can call it that) of providing content similar to what you previously browsed than reddit ever did for me. There is also a LOT of american politics here, so you read one article, you are going to be fed many more.
The only real downside to lemmy is that most of the niche communities arent really active which is a shame, thats up to us to get it moving
Did you know some random American gun person went to a Beetlejuice play? Apparently, this is of vital importance and everyone MUST know absolutely every single move that she made that night.
Oh no you had to see a headline and keep scrolling. You gonna be ok?
I won't lie, it was one of the most difficult things I ever had to do. But I survived. I also survived the next 20-30 times it happened; it doesn't seem to get any easier though.
It shames me to admit this but sometimes I have nightmares of being stuck in a never-ending loop about Boebert and Beetlejuice. The other day, I caught myself looking in the mirror, I felt like I was somehow possessed and then the words came out of my mouth involuntarily, 'Boebert, Boebert, Boebert'. I can't accurately describe the relief I felt when nothing happened. Since then, it feels like it's finally over! Finally I can breathe easy and rest in—
Uhoh now you'll have to open a gun-themed BBQ restaurant and give your clientele food poisoning. It's the only way to break the curse.
As an American, it's annoying as hell for me too. Entrenched leftists and Trumpers are the worst.
Agreed. Hardliners on both sides are frustrating and annoying.
You're above it all, eh bud?
The blind support of a party? Yes. Yes I am.
Blind support? Republicans aren't doing anything good.
Skill issue
I actually think the opposite. I'm on kbin tho, but I've noticed a lot more ESL speakers across the board. But also, I'm really only on aus politic magazines anyway
Makes sense, because Kbin is made by a Polish developer and its first instance was Polish.