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A place to discuss Australia and important Australian issues.

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When posting news articles use the source headline and place your commentary in a separate comment

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Since Kbin doesn't show Lemmy Moderators, I'll list them here. Also note that Kbin does not distinguish moderator comments.

Additionally, we have our instance admins: @lodion@aussie.zone and @Nath@aussie.zone

founded 1 year ago

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Australia Community Anniversary Thread (aussie.zone)

submitted 5 months ago by unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone to c/australia@aussie.zone

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Communities don't get cake days on Lemmy, but looking back at the posts in the Aussie Zone meta community, today 12/06 marks one year since @404@aussie.zone requested the community be created. Since then the top posts this community has had were:

At 679 - 9 votes and 200 comments: YouTube Premium family plan price update ($17.99/month -> $32.99/month!) (by @trk@aussie.zone
At 571 - 7 votes and 68 comments: The lack of ads! (by @Gbagginsthe3rd@aussie.zone)
At 551 - 38 votes and 174 comments: Can we stop buying these stupid things? Thanks (by @R00bot@lemmy.blahaj.zone)

I had a look sorting by controversial and I'm quite surprised that the referendum megathread, which bot recruit @dalekerrigan@aussie.zone kept reminding everyone about.

Within this first year we also participated in the first ever lemmyvision contest, with our nomination ranking 4th.

We've also appointed some extra moderators since the start of the year-@Fluid@aussie.zone, @bestusername@aussie.zone and @eatham@aussie.zone-who have been doing a great job at keeping conversations on track.

What were your favourite interactions and posts on this community over the year? And what would you like to see the community move towards in the years ahead?

Thanks everyone for the wonderful year!

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[–] Baku@aussie.zone 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

My claim to fame: I have the 38th (or maybe 39th? I don't think I was counting very accurately...) top post here complaining about AfterPay. Do I get a participation trophy?

I have the 3rd top post on the instance as a whole! I want a medal for that!

[–] Nath@aussie.zone 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I think this is the wrong place if you care about points. You can easily get thousands of points on the other site reposting something popular from January's front page.

Here, we can get over 300 comments on a post with fewer than 20 points.

[–] Baku@aussie.zone 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Oh, I guess it didn't really come across, but I was joking.