Hmm, okay thats good, maybe its just my end. Cheers.

I've made a change to security policy, but am not across any instances running NodeBB with which to test.

loading ok for me:

Thanks for the ping. Without getting into details, this is a security measure to block AI bots that were scraping aussie.zone and effectively DDoSing us.

If there are specific apps/platforms that are incorrectly being caught in this, I can allow them on a case by case basis.

Just come across this myself.

Long-running fediverse instances will likely have old copies of established aussie.zone actors, but federation will be broke for newer instances and/or newer actors.

Verifiable by doing something like:

WORKS:   
curl --header 'accept: application/activity+json' https://reddthat.com/u/lodion

DOESN'T WORK:   
curl --header 'accept: application/activity+json' https://aussie.zone/u/lodion

I chose reddthat.com because it seems like it has similar protection, but allows for AP requests. (other instances use non-CF solutions, but I imagine they've had to make similar tweaks).

It's been a couple of days, so it might be worth some pings:

@admin@aussie.zone

@lodion@aussie.zone

Yeah, i think thats fair. I can't see enough people outside of the facebook ecosystem discovering this at the moment, to make it naturally grow. But at the same time there is a kind of 'build it and they will come' philosophy that could apply with these things.

I suppose this post is part of me slowly trying to figure out how a networked set of online options could be built out for Australians in particular, and thats less reliant on other countries, especially US, Russia or China, et al.

Would be keen to join. But I'm not currently up to hosting, and the chances of my town setting up anywhere besides Facebook in the foreseeable future are slim to none. Sadface.

Yes please!

Sorry for the delayed reply, I didn't see this comment until now.

I'd say none of us want any drama either, and that's one of the reasons I wanted to make clear upfront that it'd be strictly about Aus-focused discussions. If I get the support of other moderators, we can gladly emphasise that we're on probation, that drama, infighting and troll-feeding won't be tolerated, and create rules to promote a respectful community.

Yeah absolutely I'd be willing to do my part there if needed.

If you need moderators to keep within the server rules, I'd be happy to volunteer (as I imagine @Zagorath@aussie.zone, @star@aussie.zone, @eureka@aussie.zone might also volunteer)

Political ideology communities can be a lightning rod for trolls and general drama

Yeah fair enough. Thanks for giving it a shot though :)

I've created /c/aussocialism , but consider it on probation. Political ideology communities can be a lightning rod for trolls and general drama. I don't want either here. If it becomes an issue I'll shut down the community and it can find a new home.

@lodion@aussie.zone can we has? Do we have sufficient upvotes?

I'd argue the push behind this would be so we don't have to post to .ml with all the tankies who think Stalin was a swell dude (this is hyperbole, because of course not all the users believe the same thing, but the point does still stand).

Yeah sounds good, I really don't want another .ml shit fuck fest though

"MAGA Communism"

Today I wish-I-didn't Learn

also, funnily enough, from the Australian Communist Party haha

Just in case it was confusing, my comment was referring to the "American Communist Party" (known for "MAGA Communism").

The refreshing part of having met people IRL in Australia, I think, is the majority of socialist identifying people in Australia don't have a hard-on for authoritarian regimes just because they claim to be socialist or are an enemy of the US (because apparently the US are the only imperialists... lol).

Though I have met a handful of such people IRL also, funnily enough, from the Australian Communist Party haha

I also vote on wanting this new community, mostly because lemmy.ml doesn't really align with the majority view of socialists (at least, that's my sense)

I think a community should definitely aim to have a small team of moderators who have a longish history on the server. You want people who understand what aussie.zones about in a situation where sudden growth of Lemmy were to occur.

Fair point, agreed and edited the post.

Can I recommend the name be something more like aussocialism? Personally I find it more useful if the name of the community itself, not just the combination of name + domain, tells you the subject? It's not as common on aussie.zone, but there are definitely general-purpose communities on feddit.uk, feddit.nl, lemmy.ca, and midwest.social, so it is helpful to give the community a name that makes its purpose clear without needing to read the sidebar.

I'll be interested to read comparisons and contrasts with pacific island nation social structures with socialist theories. Considering a lot of those structures are an amalgam of Islander traditions influenced by imported organisational systems I'd imagine theres some very striking similarities and other parts that aren't so similar.

Never went on r/aussocialism, so i don't know what that was like, but a lot of these communities on lemmy I find can be very doctrinal or even dogmatic.

Yeah, that'd be nice it have. I'm happy to mod if you ever need an extra.

It'd be good to set it up early before a sectarian or reactionary group tries to do it, like we saw with /r/asksocialists (blatantly co-opted into an ACP grifter ad since late-2025). That said, I also think a more human site like aussie.zone would kick anyone who tried to turn a comm into an ad like that.

Upgraded to 0.19.15