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Hello Melbourneians? Melbourneites? Person from almost the other side of the world here.
How come this community is so active on Lemmy? I haven't seen any other city pop up on my feed as often as yours. You regularly get more than a hundred comments each day in these discussion threads.
Many of us are Reddit blackout immigrants.
Because we're actually a cult and everyone's welcome to join. Even you. Sign up with a picture of a pet. We're open 24/7.
You can checkout but you can never leave.....
We were a pretty active community back on Reddit,. especially during COVID.
Many of us migrated here last year during the Reddit boycott/fuckery.
We share random mundane shit and talk shit with each other.
Most of my posts are me being annoyed with me neighbours mowing their lawn twice a week or watering the same lawn when it's raining.
Feel free to join us. You don't have to live here to talk shit π
And most of my posts are really long rants about minor, mostly inconsequential shit
Cat photos and the job hunt from me.
I serve breakfast daily, as compensation for the end of donut (zero covid) days
Because ithe internet is made of cats & boobs, and we have cute cats π
My cat is indeed cute. My boobs however, not so much.
I have neither of these things. π
Poor deprived bubba
It's often 300+ on a Friday.
We're coming at you from the future just now because daylight savings time ended overnight.
It's an active community because it's an active community. Any community with 50+ daily commenters could be as active.
Weβre just that cool!
Really tho? Iβd guess because of the dynamics of Australia, whereas else where people are more spread out we all live largely in 2-5 cities.
Melbourne is over 5 million people and the largest city in Australia. We can all gather and talk about the same place and things.
We also speak English so others internationally can engage more easily with our community.
Oh and both work, but we generally use Melbournians.
G'day! Melbournian is the most common term for us, although I'd usually drop the o to emphasise its Mel-burn and not mel-born (although it's usually said Melb'n, but that's a whole other story!)
My theory on why we're so active: these daily threads were previously going on the melbourne subreddit for years, so when r/Melbourne went dark for the protests, there was a lot of oragnising to get people here. A few people came, and since everybody in the DT knows each other, they told everyone else and then everybody started moving over here. A few people refused to come, but enough people came, and enough others were forced to come when the sub vanished that we formed our own community.
If you want your mind blown even more - look at the thread from June 15th 2023. Over 600 comments on it! A few of those people went back to Reddit as soon as the subreddit reopened, but enough stayed that it didn't just become a group of 3 people like a lot of other communities. Our other city communities like !Brisbane@aussie.zone sometimes have DTs too, but only get 5 or 10 comments, so that's meant that our DT kind of ends up attracting people from all around australia since we're so active and such awesome people (lol)
It's actually a pretty even in terms of comments between us and r/Melbourne. Their thread is currently at 159 comments and ours is at 119 (this thread was actually posted 5 hours early)
Not sure if any of this actually answered your question, but the TL;DR is that these DTs were happening on Reddit for many years and the community split in 2 during the shit reddit pulled last year. Most of the long term active people moved here, although a couple stayed back on reddit.