I am very confused by this new platform but I managed to bumble my way here from reddit. Hi DT! I missed you.
I'm very much enjoying the DTs. I was just a lurker over at the old place and it feels lovely to be actively part of this community. Thanks guys! 😊😊😊😊
I think there might be a few of us who were mostly lurkers on the other sub. I'm enjoying this new place, so additional thank you from me too! 🙂
Pummeled by my physio, what a morning. Got a cheese, Vegemite and paprika scroll for breakfast tho!
Stress leave letter achieved! Ya boy is laying low for a couple of weeks to gather his thoughts.
i was primarily a lurker and very rare contributor on the old DT but this place seems nice. hello! i thought i loved watching internet drama unfold but turns out not so much when it impacts the communities i frequent.
While I did say earlier it was good to see the DT once again on r/melbourne, I figured it might be best to make an account here on the Aussie Zone so I can read up on happenings over here as well. Hello, once again, !melbourne.
I'm not sure why anyone would want to use the Reddit DT after seeing the content from who is left over there vs here. I kinda don't want most of them to come over, the vibe here is too good lol
Mostly been a lurker on r/melb; my god it's now a dog's breakfast over there there. So glad I moved first thing when aussie.zone popped up.
Which reminds me, I should really donate some coffee money towards the server costs.
I had a quick flick through, and it feels like even the 3 or 4 regulars who haven't come over have gotten really aggro too
Agreed. It's much nicer over here . Similar thing happened with the menopause sub on the weekend, so I'm sticking with the menopause community on Lemmy (believe me no one needs all that bad juju amongst menopausal people haha) I've really only been going over to Reddit for sewing stuff cos there isn't much here.... Yet
Unpopular opinion, but it seems like the mods little protest is working. Most members are pissed about all the Florida posts, 90% of the DT is people whinging about it. I don't imagine anyone who stumbles across the sub now would want to stay
I wonder if it's worth a few of us dropping into the DT to say where the real convo's at. But I also don't want all the Reddit drama to end up here so...
I have done that on a very limited basis, but it feels like I’m a cult member handing out flyers at a train station.
It feels a little that way - especially since I guess there'd be few people there now that wouldn't know about this place. A lot of people have done what they could to bring the regulars in to this safer refuge, but if people don't want to leave then no one can force them.
One bloke there seemed alright and was asking if there were still legends in the DT, so I let him know most of us have moved over here
Egh... just scrolled through some of the DT after posting. A few other regulars are there but holy fuck the trash seems to have blown right through the screen door.
i did that at breakfast but i don't want to spam it. Would be nice if a few of us post at different times of the day
It’s brutal in there. I’ve been following the API drama, and I can see the mods point about the mod tools becoming inaccessible. but then also read that many tool may not be affected now because there’s a threshold that needs to be met to be charged, and most of the mod tools fall under it? (I could be mistaken). But I honestly cannot see how posting about Florida will get any meaningful interaction or concessions from Reddit. I mean how exactly is it supposed to help? So I think I’m also on the unpopular opinion that it’s just people having an arms crossed foot stamp with no real action plan in mind.
I mean how exactly is it supposed to help?
Pretty sure the goal is that it pisses people off enough that they leave Reddit. Then it's technically not the mods forcing them off by setting the sub private, it's the users deciding they don't like the theme of the sub and choosing to leave. They seem to be removing links to other subreddits, but not to other communities on other platforms.
(The main thing that triggered this was that the Reddit admins sent the mods a message basically saying "open up now, or we will find someone who will", but they also said mods are otherwise free to run the sub how they see fit)
Hmm I guess that means mods have given up a just want to burn the place down in retaliation. I don’t think it will work. The Melbourne sub might get snuffed, but reddit as a whole will live on just fine. There are lots of active big communities with heaps of users. It won’t really matter if a few of the smaller subs disappear.
It's malicious compliance, subs were ordered to open so they are opening and participating in a way that's still protesting.
all the above is good for me to know. I'll just copy / dump all my comments and edit them later. The whole thing could self destruct pretty soon again
Out of the loop, what Florida posts?
But also, I can't help but also feel like some people would be particularly unhappy about the entire blackout/protest situation as it is.
Some of the other subs already have people complaining about how some mods didn't get user consensus before proceeding, something that gets extra fuddled by some of the mods (of other subs) proving themselves to be hypocrites and hurting the movement as a whole.
I just had a first look in a few weeks....gaaah, my eyes. I like this chill space, I'm staying.
Years ago, I would have been raging against the injustice of this bs. I guess I’m no longer in my youth, cause right now I’m more than happy sitting this one out and just watching from the side lines. Growing up feels strange.
So after 15 years and many deleted accounts, all my accounts now get permanently suspended. Weird. Never happened before as I always like starting fresh but oh well. Can still browse what I want, just can't shitpost
Today is the day I ask my doctor for a cert for stress leave and I'm so nervous I feel ill. I really want to ask for a full two weeks, but I feel like that's a lot to ask for just off the cuff. It would be the perfect amount though and I would get to skip my night shift rotation which is desperately what I need.
Tell the doctor what you feel you need. If you are stressed it is from putting your job ahead of your own needs, and you won't get better by continuing to do the same thing. Better to have the two weeks you need now than have half the time now and four weeks later because you didn't allow enough time to recover the first time.
Asking for things can be hard but you got this! You know what you need, advocate for yourself! Hugs 😊
When I’ve discussed this with my GP before, they said one week for sever stress might help, but it’s really not enough. Hope your GP takes the same approach and gives you the time you need.
I'm not supposed to drink coffee normally this month because it could stain my temporary veneers, so I've been drinking iced coffee with straws. Until right now. As I sit outside this Bourke Street cafe, headphones adorned, audiobook playing while I people watch; I have before me a large, perfectly hot Melbourne coffee. A beverage I have not put to my lips since the beginning of winter.
I'll only have these teeth for 7 more days. Stain be damned.
I just discovered Aussie.Zone has a pictures community. I'm going to share some of my favourite Aussie holiday snaps there. It would be nice to get a bunch of photos in there from all over Australia, expecially if they have a bit more local flavour rather than just the aussie landmarks. So I've started with some bats from the colony on the Yarra.
I’m on Lemmy.one and noticed this as well, if I understand this correctly,
sometimes if your instance doesn’t recognise the community in search it’s because no one has searched that from your instance before.
It could take a few goes of reloading the page and search again for it to work.
I recently searched for Sydney community from my instance and nothing came up until like the 8th try.
Sometimes, no-one on the instance has subbed yet, so it won't show up. You might need to put an exclamation mark on the front to have it come up (to make the server check for other servers, rather than what's just been synced).
You know you must be getting older when you're excited you stocked up on toothpaste that was on special at the chemist...(PSA: Oral B is only $2.49 at Richmond Traders Priceline today)
So apparently a sub has disappeared en route to the Titanic site.
I hate to say it, but…everyone on it is likely dead
ABC news was saying that there was theoretically still about 70-90 hours of oxygen left in the sub.
They lost contact fairly suddenly half way down. There’s only oxygen left if the structure is still intact, which…may not be the case
True. If so, then it would be quick due to extreme water pressure and very very ugly. Don't envy the people attempting to retrieve the sub though. Underwater accidents at depth are very very ugly.
Just heard this on the news! I want to hope they're okay, but wow. I can't imagine what that would be like for anyone involved.
I read somewhere that it has enough oxygen for 4 days, but I don't know how they will find it or bring it to the surface if they do.
I feel worst for their families - I can only imagine what they're going through now. I really hope it was quick for all involved
I may or may not have bought myself a sausage roll on the way home purely so I’d have something warm in my hands
I go to Coles because I love the joint. I love fucking searching for shit that should be there but it's not. So I have to make a right hand turn into the carpark and there's some wank coming out trying to make a right hand turn in to my street. He starts beeping. I wind down my window and yell "oi what are you doing mate. You've got a stop sign". His arms start screaming at me. I let the dickhead go because I'm polite and he puts his foot down and nearly takes out the car travelling straight. Urgh fuck me.