This instance is well into a second year of existence now, and while changes have happened its stable.

Thinking about longevity, i think Aussie Zone could benefit from a direction setting and issue defining annual meeting of sorts.

Issues like the large amount of dead communities and why they’re left, decisions that need to be made about inactive moderators, financing (if this hangs around for a long time this might become an issue for Lodion), broader direction setting, also might be a good way to look back on the years events and assess whats happened perhaps after some time has passed.

Its structure being analogous to a companys AGM, hence the name, the thread could be locked after two days or a week, etc, and amount of questions allowed per user limited.

In saying all this, i’m not forgetting that this is Lodion and Nath’s beast. But i think it could be useful to find out the broader instances thoughts or concerns, for instance if a user doesn’t feel an issue warrants its own thread, an AGT could be useful for that.

And, of course, the structure would have to be thoughtfully done. It can’t set up an us against them scenario in any configuration that could possibly detrimentally occur. Can’t also be an agonybaints session, the rules would have to foster only productive and earnest conversation.

I don’t know, I by no means have a fully fleshed out idea here. But what do people think of an AGT or something along that vein?

  • Gorgritch_Umie_KillaOP
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    11 days ago

    I took a little time to respond because i wanted some time to be thoughtful about this subject, sorry for that.

    I understand why thats the stance. At the end of day your the one that keeps AZ running and the one on the hook for problems. That means you need to have final say over your platform. I get it.

    I suppose i’m trying to gauge what everybody, including you, on AZ thinks in regards what we’re doing.

    I’ve taken the fediverse koolaid pretty hard, so i suppose you could say i have an excited bias. I see the Social Web as a possible beginning for a genuine set of local social media alternatives to large unnaccountable providers. I’m interested in being part of the decentralised online world that the social web offers.

    AZ is obvs an exemplar of this, so i’m happy as a pig in mud. Let me know if theres any support you need ever, i’m always willing to help where i can.

    • Lodion 🇦🇺MA
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      11 days ago

      Don’t get me wrong, I’m happy you posted this. If there are unvoiced concerns or issues, here is a good place to discuss them.

      I’m not as active on lemmy as I’d like, so I’m likely not aware of issues unless they’re raised somewhere like this.

      For potential meta issues such as age verification, I’ll be seeking input from the community when they arise and information around them is known and understood.