So over the past couple of days I've asked about adding a Rocket Lab community. It seems there are those against adding a community for a corporate entity, those keen to get such a community, and those that don't care either way.

What's our decision making process? Do we do a poll? Do we add communities if there is enough interest, or side on not adding them unless there is widespread support?

Do we want to keep communities here focused on locals, or are general interest communities suited to lemmy.nz if they have a tie to NZ?

Anyone have thoughts?

[–] thevoyagekayaking 7 points 9 months ago (3 children)

A more generic aerospace and technology community would be better, in my view. I'd like to discuss the benefits companies like SpaceX can bring to NZ as well, for example.

[–] deadbeef79000 7 points 9 months ago

A Kiwi focussed aerospace community would suit I think.

It's not specific to one corporate entity.
The community itself would decide what's on/off topic.
When rocketlab inevitably gets rebranded iysnot right there in the community name.

[–] absGeekNZ 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Rocketlab and dawn aerospace are the only two I know of

[–] thevoyagekayaking 4 points 9 months ago

It doesn't necessarily have to be NZ companies, they just need to have an effect on NZ.

[–] Dave 3 points 9 months ago

I feel this is a quite different audience, which is something we sorta need to work out.

Currently, every local community we have is specifically for NZ people. Whether they have their account on this instance or not, the content is not really that targeted (or interesting) to someone with no ties to NZ.

Adding a community about NZ space companies would again mean that the community is focused for NZers.

On the other hand, a Rocket Lab community would be a more general interest community. People with no ties to NZ at all would join and participate, and the fact it's hosted on lemmy.nz would be incidental.

So the question is whether we want these sorts of general interest communities on Lemmy.nz, or if we want all our communities targeted at NZers and NZ adjacent users only.

I don't really have a preference either way myself. Ultimately whether it's here or on another instance we can still access it.

[–] eagleeyedtiger 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It’s nice to have NZ based communities on here, but I don’t see why we can’t have more generic ones either. Unless of course it’s putting to much load on the server or something?

[–] Dave 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

There's no server load issue, just more a question of what kind of stuff should be in our Local feed.

[–] eagleeyedtiger 4 points 9 months ago

In that case I’m open to general interest communities here