As a Melbournian, I think you're just running into the network effect, in conjunction with Perth's lower population.

There's a decent number of people from Melbourne posting because the population is higher, and there are already a decent number of people.

You, my friend, are a trend setter. Posting before the community is actively posting on Lemmy.

And I 100% salute you. Love ya work mate.

Sincerely, from the east.

Thanks, I wasn't sure, and I can be very forward in my opinions, here and IRL, and sometimes it comes across more like brow-beating without me realising it. Yeah, I think there is an 'attraction to activity' aspect people like to be amongst something. And it can be a bot "tumbleweedy" here.

the potential for inuendo is endless! 😆

Even the Freo sex shop was getting into the spirit!

Nothing unwelcoming about it! You're doing a great job posting, but I don't blame you for feeling a little discouraged at how quiet it is here. That's probably the only thing discouraging more people from taking part; ironically the solution to attracting more activity is having more activity (yeah, I don't understand how that works at a practical level either). But don't feel burdened either way!

Wow, I'm glad! You've now inspired me to head North in search of local news. I've found three unique sources that people might not have heard from before. Theres a couple that I've nevwr heard of before. O'll have to update the sidebar.

Thanks for all your posts, and efforts on the com.

It allows me to keep up with Perth goings-on, and have a place to chat about WA things.

Thanks ace. Thats a beautiful and eerie picture. I didn't know there was anyone from up North of WA in here.

Bris said they used it as their knuckle-down signal also.

fn worked.

I am spewin', and probably uncontactable for about 3 days.

It was rough. Its almost like wharfie time had a negative effect.

Nasty. Still, at least five of their players didn't fuck the season up for the whole club.

Cheers for that 🙂 If you ever have any suggestions on how to get people more involved in the community I'm always interested to talk.

Freo were up by 3 goals with 8 minutes to play. Then Brisbane scored five goals.

...and we fucked it.

Just replying to let you know that you aren't posting into the void & keep up the good work.

Ooh, lots to respond to here!

First, cheers mate. I won't lie, i feel a bit lonely posting in this community sometimes. Hut theres usually a few other posts, commenta and upvotes to let me know I'm not posting to no one, which i genuinely value 🙂

But yeah, its an odd little milestone, thats definitely had an effect on the way I live and view things.

I've not been tracking MAU that closely, interesting about the porn thing, not surprising though. Its a shame that we're shrinking here on Lemmy. I've recently joined Mastodon as well, and the place is very active, the 'firehose' is quite cool. Lemmy is more sleepy, but that could be fine if its users like that style, not all sociall media needs to be up to the minute, changes every second.

I think what needs happen is not on here, we need physical community outreach. QR codes on traffic lights, flyers in second hand shops and libraries, education on why using X and Reddit are part of the problem and that there is an alternative.

Okay so this is my thinking exactly. Only, I thought Lemmy was relatively stable not shrinking so I didn't really have a sense of urgency.

On the issue of the wider society having no idea another option even exists, I've been acting.

I have set up a working group, on Matrix Chat, with the aim to launch a Social Web Foundation to support the development, expansion, and public relations of the Social Web (fediverse, et al) in Aus, NZ, and the Pacific Islands.

Currently its mostly me just working on the project with some support from a few other users here I invited due to me understanding that their values aligned with the project.

Because its going to be a foundation, I eventually need at least six other (but the more the better) people to join me to file the applications. So I concluded I'd need a 'brochure' style website to link to, that is available to explain in detail the work and ideas behind the foundation proposal.

So I'm finding my way about Wordpress in order to build a website. Quickly after starting that process I realised a good logo would be effective from the beginning. I've spent a bit of time working that out and now have it with a logo designer who I'll be working with over the next four weeks or so to deliver a logo I think is becoming something quite unique.

So my timeline currently looks like this,

1. Matrix Chat Working Spaces (complete)
2. Logo (in process)
3. Website (beginning)
4. Member Drive
5. File Foundation Application
6. Start Supporting Social Web in the Australia/Pacific region

I don't know if you're from this part of the world, i recognise your username though, but if you want to join me in this project I'd be super excited to have you, let me know and I'll private message you an invite. 🙂

I'm also quietly emailing organisations about the social web, as I see opportunities. Its mostly independent news-media to try to get their attention on the Social Web as a functioning and valuable entity for them to use and refer to. I see a lot of complimentarity in these two entities. This hasn't delivered much interest from those orgs yet though.

Anyway, this is all apart from the subject at hand, its a whole other thing. They are related in the way that if we have an interesting and active community in places like this, when people come to try it, theres something here to engage with. 🙂

Don’t beat yourself up. Lemmy and the wider fediverse isn’t doing great. We’ve been flatlining in MAU for a while now and that’s only because of the increase in porn. If you take nsfw out, we’re actually shrinking.

I think what needs happen is not on here, we need physical community outreach. QR codes on traffic lights, flyers in second hand shops and libraries, education on why using X and Reddit are part of the problem and that there is an alternative.

And congrats on running this comm for 3 years!

Surely there's some law about bosses being bums if they make us work that day! 😅

Can we have a public holiday if they win

If you believe the hype being whipped up by the local media, a Dockers victory on Saturday would make the America’s Cup soirees look like the Boston Tea Party.

I don't understand this awction at all. Boston Tea Party was a massive rejection of "taxation without representation", I feel like the author Brendan Foster didn't hit the mark with this one.

I've not given AF about footy since I was in colts and saw how monstrous parents are (yanno, "Rip his eyes out, Billy!") and have only watched AFL finals as a bonding ceremony with my step-dad.

And I live halfway around the world now, but I can't hate this. It's cool. 👍🏻

Titles not mine, its from the post on LinkedIn. Fun little video although I couldn't find it anywhere better than linkedin

Per round trip yeah, lmao smb over anything more than 2-3ms kills me

Per packet. If you are using something shitty like SMB that does a couple dozen chats per action it rack up.

Is it that time of year again?

Working for an ISP we saw this happen a lot this time of year.

Doesn't help that all the 2 cables to Perth goes through the same straight full of shipping and the 3rd goes to Oman