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Aussie Enviro
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Nice to see you've had a look at the sidebar :) I know it can look a mess on apps that don't have markdown enabled on sidebars.
Theres a subsection there called 'conservation' with links to a number of sites that could help you find more wildlife based news. Most of the links come from the first two moderators of this community, who have since moved on, u/treevan is still knockin about lemmy somewhere, i think they're on .solarpunk now. I geberally update the lists with a few links once or twice a year.
One of the things i love about wildlife posts is, while the overall extinction and biodiversity crisis is overwhelming, there are always small wins and hopeful projects being pushed through.
Don't despair! Repair!
I don't have a smartphone so on my laptop it's not a mess at all. I put up the food for wildlife post up first because right now we are in the midst of major events (fires, floods, droughts, heatwaves) all happening at the same time. When it comes to wildlife, we can ALL take action (or not - this is really important too) to protect and increase (particularly our smallest pollinators and soil organisms without which we can not have a healthy world).
I'm new to these alternative social media sites and had never heard of the solarpunk one. Would you have a link?
https://slrpnk.net/
So, its still lemmy, its just another server with a niche interest area.
To explain, just in case you've not read about it. And this has got long, sorry.
Lemmy isn't a single platform, its a linked network of platforms run by different people. It uses the activitypub protocol to enable communication between these servers.
Aussie zone, our server is for Australians and friends of, for an Australian perspective on topics. A good example is c/overseas news, its ostensibly a world news community, like many others on lemmy, but with a focus on the Australian perspective.
https://slrpnk.net/, is the same type of server as Aussie Zone, but instead of the niche interest being Australia, it's niche is the positive-green-communistic approach of Solarpunk.
As far as I know solarpunk is fully public facing, like Aussie Zone. So we can see and participate in all their communities, and discussions, and likewise they can see and participate in all ours.
For ease of use the app sync actually allows you to visit the specific servers and look through all their communities, unfortunately the app developer hasn't updated in a long time, so its less popular than it was during the Re-xodus. Otherwise you can go to the url in this message, and look for the list of communities from there.
Thank you for the extended response. Bit by bit I'll learn about this new space (to me).