!world@quokk.au

Not going to lie, I got banned so I made my own World News Community. This community differs because there’s no silly bot, I’ll happily listen to the communities voice, and we’re a bit more lax on rules policing.

Feel free to come on by and comment. I would love to foster a News community that’s active in discussion.

  • Blaze (he/him)English
    2·
    2 months ago

    Yeah I asked my discord group to join Lemmy on different instances and post something on the community, so I recognise a few of those names.

    I guess you are aware it seems a bit suspicious? Is that a news-oriented Discord?

    And the community doesn’t have 2K members, it’s 2K people who clicked on a trending topic. Which considering the top 5 posts have 600+ votes is like 1/3rd of all those 2k already.

    Indeed, but 2k different people upvoting posts on this very recent community without any announcement does not align with usual trends.

    The top weekly posts on !globalnews@lemmy.zip are below 200 votes: https://lemmy.zip/c/globalnews?dataType=Post&sort=TopWeek

    • Deceptichum@quokk.auOPEnglish
      21·
      2 months ago

      Nope, it’s a small personal gaming discord with about 20 or so people mostly from Australia. Most didn’t join and I don’t think many of them stuck around after a few days.

      I doubt all 2k have upvoted posts, isn’t it just people who click on a link and visit the community? Which I don’t think is as rare as you think. I bet I could see even higher numbers if I made a meme community. Trending things isn’t super hard, and once you get that you get viewers.

      • Blaze (he/him)English
        1·
        2 months ago

        Active users count users who votes, posted or commented. Visiting is not enough.

        I bet I could see even higher numbers if I made a meme community.

        Indeed, but memes are a very popular type of content. News, not so much.

        On the other hand, I had a look at https://lemmy.world/post/20721206 and that might explain where the users come from.

        On other topics

        • do you plan to have other mods as well?
        • quokk.au currently only has one admin, do you know if they plan to add other admins? If not, the risk of the instance disappearing over night is something to consider: https://feddit.uk/post/17835033
        • Deceptichum@quokk.auOPEnglish
          11·
          2 months ago

          I post trending news from Anime_Titties, so stuff I knew would be well received.

          As for your questions, I’m happy take on mods. I’ve had like two reports on a China post so far, so not in a huge rush but as it grows I will need them.

          As for instance, I don’t think they do. I can message them after work and check, I know the site is funded for at least 2 years though.

          • Blaze (he/him)English
            1·
            2 months ago

            As for your questions, I’m happy take on mods. I’ve had like two reports on a China post so far, so not in a huge rush but as it grows I will need them.

            That would be nice. People come and go, and it’s always good to have at least one other person who can take over if the main mod goes missing.

            For the admins, that’s even more critical. If the instance disappears overnight, the community is lost forever.

            That’s why I asked why you didn’t join !globalnews@lemmy.zip, Lemmy.zip is always very transparent on how they are doing: https://lemmy.zip/post/22004722

            Also, your instance only has 11 users total, with 2 users this week, 3 this month, what made you choose it?

            Reddthat.com is a quite established Australian based instance with 287 monthly users