Farmers markets are getting more and more popular. Only problem I have is they're not usually at the cheap end of grocery shopping. Like, i'd love to support local more, but I can't pay premium prices every week. I think IGA has a similar problem now as well.

The flies are back! 🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰

Anyway, let me know how you go settling in. Nice to have you knocking around here 😄

And don't forget Evan Prodomou's advice,

https://cosocial.ca/@evan/116618997105724713

If you believe in the #Fediverse :

• post here
• bring your friends and family here
• tell companies, governments and creators to be here
• pay for your instance
• pay for your software

Do one thing every day. The Fediverse is worth fighting for.

May 22, 2026, 11:44 PM

I suppose the most noticeable difference to explore will be the differences you see in the 'local' tab on each account. Because the instances are different, the local tabs should be very different from each other.

Edit: reworded

The pharmacy was sold out of my favourite hay fever medication.

Yeh, alt accounts I guess. Or though in my head they’re one and the same because the username, email, and even password are the same…

Dear bot, please stop posting in all caps.

The wildflowers are out. The little groves of Kangaroo paws in the afternoon light is so nice to see after a day kickin about in the workshop.

Unless I have completely misunderstood you or the meaning of alt account, then it absolutely is.

I think lets assume I've misunderstood what alt account means, because thats likely. I've never seen a use for them for myself, so never really had more than a casual understanding. If the primary use is to have an account that has no outward association with the other account, then I think I was using the term 'alt account' wrong.

In which case you simply have two accounts associated by name and network (network is, activitypub -> lemmy), but differing by instance (website). The separation by instance is the key difference. This means they are separate organisations participating in the same market. Whats acceptable on one site, might not be acceptable on the other. The difference between instances on lemmy is a bit like the differences between grocery stores. The instances all play in the same market (just like coles, woolies, aldi, iga, spudshed are all in the grocery market) and are similar. But you dont get all the same stuff from an IGA that you do from an Aldi. The quality can be vastly different, just like the difference between spudshed and woolworths. Of course we're comparing organisations run for a profit to organisations run for socialisation and information dissemination purposes so the similarities stop somewhere 😆😆

As an in practice example, the site rules are similar but different. For instance the legal systems they refer to and rely on are different. Lemmy.world is likely governed and hosted in the US, whereas aussie.zone is hosted in Australia, and is explicitly governed by Australian law, in the first case. In front page sidebar 'nothing illegal in Australia' can be read as a declaration of the site owners preferred location of legal proceedings as well as indicating the legal structures to be applied while interacting with the site.

Is it an alt account though? I’m using the same logins for both? Or is that purely on me?

Coming from Reddit to here is a bit of a change.

Oh yeah, well that probably works out well for some things, I hear its useful to some to have an alt account.

I'm on both. The Aussie and World ones. It happened simply because Aussie on required someone to approve my application. Whereas the Lemmyworld one was insta approval.

Oh wow. You're new, new only a couple day old account, sorry didn't look before.

Welcome to the fediverse!

It can be a shit fight in some sections of this place, but when the 'all' feed gets too much I retreat back to my subscribed or my local instance.

You're with lemmy.world so your local feed will likely be pretty US centric. If you want australian stuff just subscribe to a bunch of aussie.zone and quokk.au communities, or shift your account to a smaller (niche) server.

Your local is whatever that 'instance' is interested in. For example, aussie zone is interested in aussie stuff, whereas mander.xyz is an instance interested in the sciences so the local feeds are completely different. Lemmy.world's niche is to be the broad based instance, leading to it being provably the most reddit-like experience.

I searched for it specifically.

I am from Perth. And the r/Perth subreddit was one of my most active.

Thanks 🙂.

I'm slowly working on a more direct action approach as well. Building and waiting till they come is enough for some people to find these places. And if it was just c/perth/westernaustralia on my mind, I'd be happy to sit in this happy little corner with whoever comes along.

But I see the fediverse/social web as an incredibly valuable tool for average people to carve out their own spaces without the overwhelming dominance of a few 'cultural elites'. (I hate that I used that term, but I can't think of anything else). See one of my other comments in this thread for more of an explanation.

Out of interest, how have you found your way here?

Also as I am new here. With fresh eyes. It seems to me it’s got a few issues with the mobile presentation. I have found opening posts with media a hit and miss affair. So still a bit clunky. But other than that. It’s a lot like the reddit of 2000’s. IMO anyway.

Just wait. Reddit is quickly becoming more and more unbearable. I deleted my 9 year account because of this. I only found Lemmy and subsequently this page from looking for alternatives.

It seems to be getting traction. And unlike Bluesky. Is a lot more like the Reddit of old.

So just keep doing what you are doing. And they will come…

We live in a democracy, but our form of liberalism has given far too much credence to capital owning. This leads to an imbalance in the supposed liberal outcomes that most often only those on the losing side of that equation suffer from, although few can even identify the cause of their hardships. That in turn leads them to wrongly call for policies that are a poor fit for the issues we actually have.

Two examples of poorly fit policy solutions may be,

1. Anti-migration will not fix the trouble many rural people see with their economy, which is in fact due to the slow drawing down of the outback population in favour of the metro.

2. A complete economic and social change like changing to a communist society. This may destroy the imbalance causing the current problem, it might not if the systen is captured before its robust enough to see off those threats. But it will only to replace it with a lack of indivdual and groups agency at the lowest levels practicable. To borrow an A.Smith term, embarrassing the process of trade at the outset.

Both these induced frictions lead to a less satisfying end than we can otherwise strive for in a place like Australia.

But, yes, its concerning that we are this willing to dismiss others freedoms in favour of the capital class. And its a project Australia should undertake with alacrity.

If anyone still had any doubt about what the priorities of policing and our laws are, hopefully you don't now.

It's about protecting capital, above all else.

We don't live in a democracy.

It's not that simple.

If person in the excluded list enters the exclusion zone between October 1 and October 10, they get a $36,000 fine and three years imprisonment. (Source - Section 46)
However, the police commissioner may give written authorisation to enter the event area.

Prayers FFS, Scommo made a Solemn Oath of Office, wears out his knees and tongue praising the Sky Fairy, then gives us Robodebt!

All religious content should be banned from Parliamentary ceremony!

“Each excluded person has a demonstrated history of posing a serious threat to people and/or property.”

To be clear, this is the WA Police Minister describing the protesters, not the arms dealers.

Some arguments from the ACL that, prima facie, I'd agree with. But then,

The ACL also argued that the proportion of people selecting ‘No religion’ in the Census did not establish a public mandate for removal of Christian references, adding that “no constitutional liberty should depend on majority headcounts”.

Previously, when Christian affiliation sat above 50 per cent prior to the 2021 Census, the ACL, in urging public institutions such as local councils to continue observing prayers in meetings, used to argue that “majority of Australians chose to identify as Christian in the most recent census”.

The ACL need to maintain intellectual uniformity and guard against the very natural inclination for motivated reasoning seemingly on display in the above quote.

Oof, that relies on group dynamics. Watch out for the sheeple effect.

Doesn't have to be aliens, it could be 'Big Wing', big foots' cousin.