Hi all, this is just me exploring ways we could enliven the Perth/Western Australian Community more.
The idea is in the title.
Basically my thought is for casual ongoing conversations throughout the week.
Reasons
I’ve resisted putting this post up for over a year for a couple reasons,
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I’s not sure that the Community had a stable number of users to support. Over the last year i actually think, while posting is low, interaction from whatvlooks like Fediverse West Australians seems reasonable, (even if some from other sites don’t like my posts ;) ). I still don’t know if its enough, but looking at the other Community chats its a different sort of interaction than the general posts, so maybe its worth a try.
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I don’t really want to be the leader on this. I’m sick of seeing my username so prominently on this Community :p . To be sure, I’m not going to stop posting, but i don’t really want to be the one pushing another thing onto this Community. I also don’t think my style of conversation is particularly suitable or relaxed to start a general chat thread. In saying that, i’d of course participate and support in any way i can.
Thoughts
I’m interested to hear everybodies thoughts on this from WA or further afield.
Particularly from people who might be interested in leading this and any thoughts from the other moderators.
What d’ya think?
@Gorgritch_umie_killa Yeah, when were you thinking?
Cool! :)
Whenever people like, i initially thought every Monday/Sunday night. But maybe a Thursday/Wednesday night makes more sense, you know past hump day, ready for the weekend.
Seems on the Melbourne community someone takes on Posting the chat for a bit, until another takes over. I don’t know how they do it, but it seems to work.
I thought the Melbourne way of actual people doing it, rather than a ‘sandgroper bot’ would be better. Bots on Lemmy don’t often seem to garner great interaction levels. Plus i’ve no idea how to implement a bot or whether it would be feasible. @Nath@aussie.zone is likely far more knowledgeable on the pros and cons of bots though.
Melbourne chat is posted by whoever is awake around midnight. A bot would be nice. One user deleted their account and all their posts went with it. We’ve discussed it and generally try to keep the whole thing low-key. It’s mostly idle chat and musings. There’s been few blow-outs from people expecting more from the community than is on offer. It’s a nice corner of the internet, I reckon it’d be worth developing your own one for local banter.
Ah cheers for the context. Thats great how its just whoevers up, but it works!
And yeah, it really seems to be a different aspect to the Community than the regular posts. And as you say, it adds nice vibes.