Are there any volunteer associations or local neighbourhood groups based in Melbourne or Victoria who have a presence on Lemmy?
(I don't mean volunteer devs / admins / mods... I mean like sports clubs, conservation groups, community gardens, SES, foodbank, neighbourhood house, historical society etc.)
zero_gravitas - 2w
Do organisations like that generally use platforms like Lemmy? Do they have a presence on Reddit for example?
I'd have thought that platforms like Mastodon (or Twitter) were more suited to things like making announcements.
I suppose forum-like platforms (like Lemmy) could be used for discussion and coordination of initiatives, I just haven't seen it used like that myself. I would think they'd mostly want at least a semi-private space for that (e.g. an old-school dedicated forum, or a private Facebook group), not just on the open internet like Lemmy.
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boletus - 2w
Almost all of them are Facebook and instagram groups unfortunately. Because that's what people know.
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SaneMartigan - 2w
We (aussie.zone) had a chat about business accounts and IIRC the general view was that they were going to be marketing in one form or another so we didn't need them. Maybe for grassroots organisation of things but for actual volly companies I think there's enough space for them already.
sarahsquirrel in melbourne
Local volunteer groups here on Lemmy?
Are there any volunteer associations or local neighbourhood groups based in Melbourne or Victoria who have a presence on Lemmy? (I don't mean volunteer devs / admins / mods... I mean like sports clubs, conservation groups, community gardens, SES, foodbank, neighbourhood house, historical society etc.)
Do organisations like that generally use platforms like Lemmy? Do they have a presence on Reddit for example?
I'd have thought that platforms like Mastodon (or Twitter) were more suited to things like making announcements.
I suppose forum-like platforms (like Lemmy) could be used for discussion and coordination of initiatives, I just haven't seen it used like that myself. I would think they'd mostly want at least a semi-private space for that (e.g. an old-school dedicated forum, or a private Facebook group), not just on the open internet like Lemmy.
Almost all of them are Facebook and instagram groups unfortunately. Because that's what people know.
We (aussie.zone) had a chat about business accounts and IIRC the general view was that they were going to be marketing in one form or another so we didn't need them. Maybe for grassroots organisation of things but for actual volly companies I think there's enough space for them already.