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      1 year ago

      Almost a baker’s dozen.

      Not quite the announced exodus. Time will tell, but so far, twitter, reddit and the slowness of mastodon have been really helpful in making me reduce my usage of social media.

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    1 year ago

    I’m really disappointed by the inactiveness. I know small communities that are very active outside of Lemmy so the number of users is a bad excuse. I will there was as much promotion for lemmy as Mastodon had

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      The average r/Perth user doesn’t strike me as cutting edge tech enthusiast. It’ll take a while for those types to warm up to lemmy. The real push might start happening after the API lock down.

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      I think Perth just sucks for community in general, especially more tech focused things like a federated Reddit clone

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        Yeah, even r/perth was always a bit sleepy. I could easily go on every few days and see a lot of the same stuff.

        I’s thinking of maybe putting some sort of reference material post together for people who maybe want to post a bit more but aren’t really sure what to post… but then i cracked a beer.

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          We’re just boring people. Either that or there’s nothing to talk about in a local sense.

          I read once that people are more familiar with American politics that Australian politics. Not enough drama!

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            Thats definitely a part of it, the drama in other parts of the world can be much more engaging. In an unhealthy sense.

            In the formal news frame, I think the biggest issue is the lack of a strong WA based news cadre. Theres mostly only surface level ‘events based reporting’. There’s a smattering of reporters from the corporates and ABC, but theres not much in the way of in depth analysis, or following over time of stories/sectors, unless its Ben Cousins of course! Independents (eg, community newspaper group) have near no base of support, or are non-existent. Then, outlets for local news are supplanted in favour of more consequential Eastern counterparts, because all our outputs feed into national outputs.

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              Its a great point! We basically lack the local foundation and infrastructure for old-school journalism. I don’t think there is an appetite for supporting it from the community so its unlikely to ever change.

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                1 year ago

                I hope thats wrong, like a city/state with the amount of people we have, i’d hope there’d be enough interest if the right organisation/journalist came along. But for now, i think the same.

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                  There’s a pretty strong anti-intellectual undercurrent that runs through most of the mainstream population. That kind of mindset not just disregards in-depth writing, but is annoyed by it. Sometimes angered, even.