An Australian community for everything from your backyard to beyond the black stump.
Topics may include Aussie plants and animals, environmental, farming, energy, and climate news and stories (mostly Aus specific), etc. New related communities will be split off when required, think like subcommunities that exist on that other platform.
Trigger Warning: Community contains mostly bad environmental news (not by choice!). Community may also feature stories about animal agriculture and/or meat. Until tagging is available, please be aware and click accordingly.
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Downvoters:
Does this mean you want me to remove energy-related stuff from the sidebar and community and leave it for someone else to post?
Or are you shills for big gas and you don't like the content?
Please tell me. Tough one to ascertain if you don't say anything.
I gotta stop the either or. Now I can't tell what the upvotes mean.
Maybe in the future I will ask questions via comment eg. "Downvote this comment if you want to see less of this content".
Unfortunately, downvotes aren't helping an algorithm at all. I need verbal abuse to find out what readers want.
I wouldn't try to guess what the downvotes mean. Until someone pipes up just keep posting.
I'm on the fence with energy related stuff, could it be better in politics? I'm reasonably selective and leave a lot of content for others to pick up. Energy is almost political these days.
Perhaps I'll take environmental damage from mines, air pollution, things like that.
I'll wind up the regular content soon anyway. Cheers for the comment.
Energy is definitely of environmental concern, it's very close to the most important thing because of co2 emissions
Definitely. But it's also political and it's not good having one community hoover up everything. If they are crossposted to every slightly relevant community on the local instance, it can damage the local feed (depending on how you view it, eg. what app).
If I'm posting, I'll try and set a line that I don't cross based on how much of the environment it impacts (even though technically it impacts everything). Reneweconomy.com.au has lots of content that I don't post, for one example.
Could be Voyager users going back to the previous screen by swiping…
Though I’m starting the process of transitioning. It’s a lot to think about and a multitude of tradies to live up before making the switch.
Voyager just released customisable gestures now that you mention it. I'm trialling with it off for a while. I do accidentally upvote when using the back gesture on Android at times.
As a renter of there were incentives for landlords to make the transition I'd be asking them to switch us over.
But as there's not I can't really see that there's much benefit to them in doing so
I've got gas. I just bought a portable induction and use that instead. Covers 75% of the usage usually. That's 75% less pollution in the house.
I’m trying to de-gasify my home. I get charged $20 a month on the gas bill whether I use gas that month or not. Such a waste of money.