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?
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. @[email protected] is likely far more knowledgeable on the pros and cons of bots though.