Do you strictly interpret ‘Brisbane’ as the BCC area, or will you tell people you live ‘in Brisbane’ when you’re just shy shy of Caloundra, Ipswich, or Toowoomba? I will always call Redcliffe, ‘Brisbane’, even though it was established long before Brisbane, but exclude Ipswich, but I don’t have any good reason for either.

Journos use ‘near Brisbane’ for up to 200km from King George Square, and ‘events in Brisbane’ frequently have listings for the Gold Coast.

Is Brisbane just a state of mind? :)

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    It feels like Queensland is Brisbane sometimes.

    I said earlier that instead of City communities, it should have started as State communities initially. More inclusive that way.

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      I feel like that would just have resulted in complaints from people who don’t live in Brisbane about all the Brisbane-related content. That said, there’s so little posted here so far that maybe it would have been okay, at least for a while. There’s no reason we can’t have state communities as well though.

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        Definitely. In my mind, and this was always a hypothetical, it would have started broad then continually split until you hit the point that the community couldn’t self-sustain.

        I asked for “environment” to be setup as a catchall for everything “outside”; from plants, animals, climate, culture, pollution, etc. On reddit, plants, animals, gardening, permaculture, birds, were completely separate subreddits which, if lemmy gains popularity, would likely happen again. As it is, memes outnumbers environment by orders of magnitude so memes will split well before it does eg. Straya and memes are concurrent communities already.

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      Why? I live closer to Sydney than Townsville. I live closer to Melbourne than Cairns. While those places are still in my state they may as well not be.

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        Ha, and this is why people from FNQ dislike you and SE QLD.

        They function under our state system, they have the same state politicans as us, we vote for the same people at the same election, we pool our tax money together and it is distributed across the whole state.

        That’s why we include them. Don’t you care what someone from FNQ is doing to the Great Barrier Reef? Surely you have some feelings about it as one example?