Do it, lets build this alternative place together. Can't wait for the inaugural post.

Quick work! I was just trying to round up some interest from my fellow Canberrans 😅

Let me find something worthy of an inagural post

I'm happy to make it - you got a post ready to christen it? Go post in it so I can make you a mod.

Happy to help you with setting it up, but it's pretty self explanatory.

Thanks for the tips!

I know what you mean and it will of course be an uphill battle but I want to believe in Lemmy and cut one of my last ties to centralised social media.

I'm not saying don't do it, please don't get me wrong. New and interesting communities are good.

I'm saying the community proposed needs a 'champion', or even a team of people willing to consistently post content and be involved in the community. The Australian fediverse, in particular Lemmy, the source of most community visitors is orders of magnitude smaller than reddit.

And IKT's right, it could be only a single user keeping the community going, but thats okay if its fun to do.

This post from Evan Prodromou is probably good inspiration,

Also, post to your local city sub, thats a good way to help boost the general activity and interest here on AZ. I go for indie media where I can find it, otherwise AZ can sometimes feel like a Guardian/ABC repost site.

Yeah it is a verrry active subreddit! Between the federal and state public services there are a lot of employees.

The AusUnion one is also a good community. The Members United caucus contesting the public service union (CPSU) election is doing an AMA there next week.

I guess the flip side is that there is no community for it anywhere on the fediverse at the moment and most people aren't going to take the initiative to create one. So you kinda don't know until we try.

If you aren't in the public service you might not realise how big the subreddit is and the potential for a Lemmy community. I'm happy to take the L and fold it if it doesn't take off.

And yeah happy to moderate. I am an active union delegate in the APS and I think healthy and productive discussion of the APS is one of the best ways to ensure it remains accountable and employee conditions are preserved.

Thing is, theres not heaps of people adding posts regularly on AZ, and those that are, are stretched pretty thin already. Would you be able to support the community with a base line of activity? Because it might be made and be just another orphaned community, if no-one posts there.

Would you also be a moderator if asked by Nath/Lodion?

I have a friend who spends all their time on APS. Apparently it's quite a thing if you work for the gov.

Didn't know there was an ausunions subreddit, going to take a look now.

I'm happy to cover funds through some kind of https://buymeacoffee.com/ like subscription.

Also happy to help with administration if you don't find any takers but I am also generally quite busy with various community groups so I don't have the most amount of free time to devote to it.

Sorry I hadn't seen this before. You should have messaged me. I'll look into it. I did have some ideas but had problems putting the icon up and after a while I forgot about it.

Ok cool, thank you. The reason I ask is I'm, slowly, pulling together that website for that association idea I told you about a couple months ago. I had this idea to have little drawn stick men charcters positioned in different random spots throughout the brochure website. But i's not sure what to use to remove the unnecessary background of the paper.

Thanks! I found a high resolution version of that picture to work with from a stock image site (unnecessary in this case but good practice), then used GIMP (other photo editors can do the same) to Fuzzy select (aka. Magic Wand) the white background areas, shrink the selected area by about 10 pixels to retain a small white border, then delete the selected background to leave it transparent. With a bit of experience, this doesn't take long to do as the plain-coloured geometry is easy to select.

Looks really nice. How do you do that?

I also like the design of the stick figures, although I think the Four Hands is a better logo in this context. Here's a tidy version.

Tagging @No1@aussie.zone @MisterFrog@lemmy.world @Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone

Dig the 4 interlocking hands/arms

I've seen it used as a way to help carry people when somebody was injured and couldn't walk.

You hold one of your forearm/wrists, and one of the other persons. Then they do the same to you, and you have a 'seat' with easy balance for the 'passenger' amongst the shoulders of the carriers.

Helps to have carriers swap in and out, as everyone ends up with a burner ;)

The heart and two people one is nice

The 4 hands one is pretty cool

Appreciate the Aussie based instance and all the work Lodion. Even if I main another due to who they don’t federate with. Will keep an eye out for a new donation method.

Thank you lodian for the impressive work at making such a seamless experience and Nath for being top admin and having their back.

I'm keen to donate to help cover costs but in my situation I can only provide fairly sporadic financial help.

I also fully agree with the notion of regular financial updates of where the community is at along with gentle reminders to donate. Particularly for people in my financial situation who have more sporadic financial freedom.

I believe I donate a few bucks on some regular interval. Keen to keep the site going let us know how when the decision has been made

Echoing everyone's sentiments here. I'm happy to donate. Just give us the official place to do so? Lots of conflicting proposals in here...

Thankyou so much for running this space. If you need help with the tech side of adminning, I'd be happy to give a hand. I'll keep an eye out for a post around how I can contribute to the ongoing server costs.

https://aussie.zone/post/37359