Here’s the results of what I’ve called the Community Criteria Survey.

Note that you did not have to answer any questions, so there are different numbers of responses for different questions.

First up, the demographic questions. I’m keen to do a fuller census survey like Lemmy.ca does, and will probably do this annually around the anniversary of the site in June.

Which instance(s) do you have an account on that you use to interact with Lemmy.nz communities?

Note this was multiselect, so people could choose multiple.

graph showing 16 responses for lemmy.nz, 4 for lemmy.world, 1 for lemmy.ml, 1 for beehaw.org, 1 for mastodon.nz, 3 other

Where do you live?

graph showing 6 responses for Auckland, 7 for Wellington, 3 for Christchurch, 1 for Hamilton, 1 for USA, 3 other

How old are you?

It seems the majority of our users are aged 30-50.

graph showing 2 responses for 20-29, 6 for 30-39, 9 for 40-49, 1 for 50-59, 2 no answer

Next up are the questions about communities.

Do you think communities on Lemmy.nz should be focused on people who live in NZ, or should we add communities with a more general audience? For example, !politics@lemmy.nz discusses NZ politics, with a relatively narrow audience. We could add communities with a more general audience, such as !rocketlab@lemmy.nz, which could have interested users from all over the world, and discussion that is not NZ-centric. Which of the following best describes your feelings?

Mixed responses here, it seems we will be doing surveys before we add communities as the biggest share thought a case by case basis was appropriate, and the remainder were split on whether we should only have NZ targeted communities or are happy with more general communities.

graph showing 5 prefer NZ focused, 5 happy with general audience, 10 responses for It depends - would prefer case by case basis

Specifically looking at the case of a Rocket Lab community, and considering all factors such as: Rocket Lab was founded in NZ, and launches from Māhia Peninsula in NZ Rocket Lab is a corporate entity A Rocket Lab community may not have a lot of activity outside of launches A Rocket Lab community would have a general audience, being the first Lemmy.nz community not specifically focused on people living in NZ or with close ties to NZ Posts on communities on Lemmy.nz will show in the “Local” feed Would you support the creation of a Rocket Lab community !rocketlab@lemmy.nz?

graph showing 10 responses supporting adding the community, 2 responses showing they are opposed to adding the community, 8 indifferent

I wasn’t sure of the best community for this, but as this one sort of acts as our meta community I thought this was the best place for it.