So, as per images below, when you search for an Australian community associated with lemmy, lemmy.world is more likely to come up than Aussie Zone in all i've tried, bar Melbourne our most active community.
My question: Is this a problem we should consider intentional action to correct? And if so what could we do?
I'm not fussed, personally. I think of aussie.zone as its own island of calm in the storm of the Internet. It's honestly a madhouse out there and while I'm absolutely all about empowering you to dive into that maelstrom as much as you desire (in fact a decent percentage of our users do that almost exclusively and aren't regulars in our local communities), I'm not really too interested in the madness coming here and messing with what we have.
We are not set up to cope with 10,000 users coming into our communities and having a full-on flame war with personal attacks and the sort of nastiness I've seen this past week since the former President of the USA was shot at and the current Vice President announced her candidacy.
I can't stress enough how much of a pleasure it is to interact with our userbase. I'm not really limiting that statement exclusively to aussie.zone users either. The users from other places in the fediverse who have found our communities and become a part of our mix are delightful also. I am more than happy to organically grow - but my biggest fear with the instance is waking up one day to a sudden influx of tens of thousands of new users, hundreds of user reports and our existing users getting swept aside in the noise.
Seconded.
I agree wholeheartedly.