Today aussie.zone tipped over 1000 users! Not bad considering I only stood it up 21 days ago (5th of June) 🎉🎆🥂

  • alansuspect@aussie.zone
    8·
    1 year ago

    Nice work! I had no idea what I was doing with Lemmy, but I went on r/Australia all the time so this was an obvious choice to sign up to, so glad I did.

  • Wendy_MsGator@aussie.zone
    7·
    1 year ago

    I’m here from r/GardeningAustralia on reddit. Would anyone be interested in a Gardening Australia community under aussie.zone on Lemmy? Mods over on reddit didn’t give me an answer. I’d just like to have a bolthole to come to in case reddit falls over. I went to the Discourse server during the blackout but I intensely dislike just hanging around in Discourse.

    Pic is of B2 in my garden. I have 2 bottlebrushes, B1 & B2. B1 grows tall and rarely flowers. B2 is a showoff bitch, smaller but with heaps more plumage.

    Let me know about the Gardening Australia idea.

  • TassieTosser@aussie.zone
    4·
    1 year ago

    Great job with this place. I like how it feels like /r/australia with the communities being like sub-subcommunities.

  • Morovan@aussie.zone
    3·
    1 year ago

    Hi! Newbie to the fediverse/lemmy here. (Reddit lurker refugee) Question, what’s the top capacity of the Aussie server as it stands in terms of users? How scalable are these servers generally? Congrats on setting up a new community board with quick engagement!

    • Lodion 🇦🇺@aussie.zoneOPM
      4·
      1 year ago

      Good questions, I’m honestly not sure. As it stands, the server has lots of scale to grow… just a matter of paying OVH more to upgrade it. I don’t expect it to be an issue for us… upgrading the server is relatively quick, just requires a server reboot.

      Some larger instances have previously posted their user numbers and when they’ve upgraded… but its in the 10s of thousands, we’re a long way from that being a problem.

    • Lodion 🇦🇺@aussie.zoneOPM
      1·
      1 year ago

      I really have no idea. On the one hand there has been so much noise about the new API rules, I struggle to see how people can’t be aware of the impending death of their favourite reddit apps. On the other… some people are stuck in their own little bubbles that this news hasn’t permeated, so they’ll get a nasty surprise on the 1st when the apps stop working.

      I’m fairly confident the aussie.zone server can handle more than double the current user count on the current hardware. And I can easily increase the specs if and when required.

  • Tom@aussie.zone
    2·
    1 year ago

    Congratulations Lodion, thanks for all your effort in creating and maintaining the community!