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What to feed native wildlife if they have no access to natural sources (taronga.org.au)

submitted 3 weeks ago by arbilp3@aussie.zone to c/environment@aussie.zone

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As different Australian states are dealing with different climate disasters, and wildlife is left without natural food sources, there are ways you can help. Know what foods to provide for different species but also what is NOT suitable. Share this info, you may help save a life.

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[–] arbilp3@aussie.zone 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

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?

[–] Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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.

[–] arbilp3@aussie.zone 3 points 3 weeks ago

Thank you for the extended response. Bit by bit I'll learn about this new space (to me).

[–] arbilp3@aussie.zone 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I had a look at solarpunk. It's not communistic at all. In fact, the moderator rejects communism. I like its idealism. It has the feeling of youth. It's a bit too art college for me but hey I'm of a different generation and I'm more plainspoken. Thank you for letting me now about it. I feel like I'm going on a magical mystery tour discovering this alternative social media.

[–] Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh cool. I thought all solarpunkers had that communistic part, must just be a section of the movement. I think i read that communistic part on a random solarpunk community awhile back, it surprised me when i read it, and kind of ruined it for me when they were so dogmatic about that element. Must've just been that community I's on. The idealism of solarpunk is very refreshing.

magical mystery tour Its so much this.

Yeah sorry, i did go on, and yet i left a lot out! I find the comparative associations you can draw between decentralised and centralised platforms endlessy interesting, from gripes about targeted ads, or endless ai slop, to turning here with no ads but then endless debates over lemmy's notorious tankie element. Its different, feels more alive even though is slower moving.

If you have any questions feel free to ask, or chuck it up on https://aussie.zone/c/meta people here are almost to a tee very helpful. Even the ones i've disagreed with have a good and generous streak.

[–] arbilp3@aussie.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I wanted to put up a new post but cannot. The system won't let me. I don't understand why unless I am being blocked.

[–] Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Hmm, your on web browser aren't you? So can rule out a faulty app function.

Sometimes the server goes down briefly, didn't notice that this morning myself, but i've not been on the whole time. Have you tried logging out, then in again? Might be one of those issues where its just easier to 'turn it off and on again'. I'd maybe close the browser completely as well, just in case its somehow still logged in, in some way.

And definitely restart the post as separate abd new, don't try to keep posting the post that isn't working. Best case scenario it never works, worst case it suddenly works for every single time you've pressed the 'post' icon. That has happened a couple times to me, ended up having to delete like three of the same post.

Lastly, and this ones easy to overlook, there may be a field you haven't filled in properly. For instance, it won't post without a correct title, (some characters, and spacing can't be used in the title fields), the community field needs a correctly linked community in it as well. Stuff like that.

If your still having problems screenshots, reply with them here, and i'll post it in c/meta to get a/lodion, a/nath's, or other more knowledgable users attention and help.

[–] arbilp3@aussie.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago

Thank you, I'll do that later on and let you know.