Aussie Enviro
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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.
Banner Credit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/takver/14871864504/
Aussie Zone Rules
- Golden rule - be nice. If you wouldn’t say it in front of your ~~grandmother~~ favourite tree, don’t post it.
- No bigotry - including racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia. You are allowed to denigrate invasive plants or animals.
- Be respectful. Everyone should feel welcome here. Except invasive plants or animals.
- No porn. Except photos of plants. Definitely not animals.
- No Ads / Spamming. Except for photos or stories about plants and animals.
- Nothing illegal in Australia. Like invasive plants or animals. Exotic microbes and invasive fungi also not welcome.
- Make post titles descriptive with no swear words. Comments are a free for all using the above rules as a guide. Fuck invasive plants and animals.
Server Info
- Hosted in the Sydney Basin Bioregion on Gadigal land.
- User community creation disabled - visit [email protected]
- Downvotes enabled
- User signup enabled
- Server Admin: @[email protected]
/c/Aussie Environment acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land, sea and waters, of the area that we live and work on across Australia. We acknowledge their continuing connection to their culture and pay our respects to their Elders past and present.
founded 1 year ago
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This is a replication of the creator of this community who has since removed their account
This will be a living document (and is a Work In Progress) so if readers are aware of instances/communities/magazines that suit the umbrella of the "environment", including "gardening" etc., please comment to add them. Use the browsers at the bottom to find your own. This was originally a Lemmy list but has expanded to the 'Fediverse'.
Lemmy Instances (visit to check their communities for suitability, the first 2 have a massive list of related spaces, far too many to list here):
- Mander.xyz- An instance dedicated to nature and science.
- SLRPNK.net - Solarpunk imagines a world in which today’s existential threat - the climate crisis - is being approached with camaraderie and adaptive ingenuity.
- https://thegarden.land/ - This is a home for gardeners and plant-lovers and anyone else who wants a warm place to thrive.
- lemmy.srv.eco - Self-sufficiency, mutual aid, collapse, and other subjects related to the environment and our place and role(s) within it.
Lemmy Communities:
- https://aussie.zone/c/environment - An Australian community for everything from your backyard to beyond the black stump.
- https://aussie.zone/c/gardeningaustralia - A community for all things relating to Aussie gardens. No problem too small. No question too unimportant. Come in and brag about your garden, show us what you’re doing, share that flower, ask that question.
- https://beehaw.org/c/greenspace - All things green, outdoors, and nature-y. Whether it’s animals in their natural habitat, hiking trails and mountains, or planting a little garden for yourself (and everything in between), you can talk about it here.
- https://beehaw.org/c/environment - Environmental and ecological discussion, particularly of things like weather and other natural phenomena (especially if they’re not breaking news).
- https://midwest.social/c/environment - A community about our environment (Editor's note: the midwest America I presume)
- https://lemmy.ml/c/green - This is the place to discuss environmentalism, preservation, direct action and anything related to it!
- https://lemmy.ml/c/gardening
- https://lemmy.ml/c/nolawns - A community devoted to alternatives to monoculture lawns, with an emphasis on native plants and conservation. Rain gardens, xeriscaping, strolling gardens, native plants, and much more!
- https://lemmy.world/c/homestead - Ponds, barns, livestock, gardens, food preservation, fishing, hunting, tractors, pigs, chickens, cattle, worms, 4H, permaculture, organic, grazing, canning, aquaculture, trees, woodland, farmers, agriculture, agronomy, horticulture, wwoofers, bees, honey, wildcrafting, dairy, goats, nuts, berries, vegetables, sustainability, off grid, wood stoves, chainsaws, wood heat, tools, welding, green woodworking, farmers markets, composting toilets, straw bale homes, cob building…
- https://chat.maiion.com/c/environment - A community dedicated to environmental topics discussing climate change, renewable energy, ecosystems across the biosphere, and more.
- https://lemmy.world/c/gardening - Your Ultimate Gardening Guide.
- https://lemmy.world/c/permaculture - Permaculture theory and practice.
- https://lemm.ee/c/permaculture - Caring about the earth, that is what it’s about.
- https://lemmy.ml/c/naturalgardening - Natural gardening is for all; permaculture is often for upper middle class hipsters.
- https://lemmygrad.ml/c/eco_socialism - A community for talking about gardening, Eco news, and all things Mother Earth!
- https://lemmy.ml/c/beekeeping - Beekeeping, bee gardens, bee research, bee pictures, and honey appreciation.
- https://lemmy.world/c/vegan_gardening - A community for vegan gardeners to share their successes and learnings. Vegan gardening (or veganic gardening) is gardening without the use of animal agriculture including common inputs like manure, bone and blood. It also avoids chemical fertilizers and pesticides. Instead of these elements veganic gardening uses crop rotation, mulching, compost, green manures, etc to replenish the soil and minimize loss to pests.
- https://lemmy.ca/c/outdoors - A community dedicated to all things outdoors. Hiking, backpacking, cycling, camping, gardening, walking, any discussions surrounding outdoor activities you can think of are welcome here! Write properly, behave politely, encourage a respectful community, and most importantly, GO OUTSIDE!!
- https://lemmy.ml/c/collapse - This is the place for discussing the potential collapse of modern civilization and the environment. (Editor's Note: has frequently posted environmental articles of worldwide issues.)
- https://sopuli.xyz/c/collapse - A place to share news, experiences and discussion about the continuing climate crisis, societal collapse, and biosphere collapse. Please be respectful of each other and remember the human.
- https://www.hexbear.net/c/gardening - (Editor's Note: defederated? Use as a single instance if so.)
kbin Magazines (same as Communities - list needs work):
- https://kbin.social/m/gardening
- https://kbin.social/m/houseplants
- https://kbin.social/m/Plants
- https://kbin.social/m/VegetableGardening
- https://kbin.social/m/environment
- https://kbin.social/m/climate
Mastodon Instances (click here for Instance descriptions - word count issue):
- https://regenerate.social/
- https://climatejustice.social/
- https://flipping.rocks/
- https://birds.town/
- https://urbanists.social/
- https://rail.chat/
- https://outdoors.lgbt/
- https://mountains.social/
- https://scicomm.xyz/
- https://ecoevo.social/
- https://fediscience.org/
- https://mastodon.green/
- https://eu.mastodon.green/
- https://sunbeam.city/
- https://growers.social/
- https://beekeeping.ninja/
Mastodon User Lists:
- https://fedi.directory/tag/botany/
- https://fedi.directory/tag/entomology/
- https://fedi.directory/tag/evolutionary-biology/
- https://fedi.directory/tag/earth-science/
- https://fedi.directory/tag/ecology/
- https://fedi.directory/tag/weather-and-meteorology/
- https://fedi.directory/tag/fishing/
- https://fedi.directory/tag/gardening/
- https://fedi.directory/tag/homegrown-food/
- https://fedi.directory/nature-animals/
- https://fedi.directory/tag/agriculture/
- https://fedi.directory/tag/urban-planning/
- https://fedi.directory/tag/environment-and-green-issues/
- https://communitywiki.org/trunk/grab/Animals
- https://communitywiki.org/trunk/grab/Environmentalists
- https://communitywiki.org/trunk/grab/Nature
- https://communitywiki.org/trunk/grab/Outdoors
- https://communitywiki.org/trunk/grab/Plants
- https://communitywiki.org/trunk/grab/Science
- https://communitywiki.org/trunk/grab/Sustainability
- @notjustbikes
- @[email protected] - https://github.com/immers-space/guppe/wiki/Guppe-Groups-FAQ
- @[email protected] - https://github.com/immers-space/guppe/wiki/Guppe-Groups-FAQ
Credit for Instances and User Lists to @[email protected] - https://scicomm.xyz/@glennmagusharvey/
Mastodon Tips:
- Use #tags in areas of interest and search for @users that are posting your favourite content and follow. Search and favourite a list of #tags to populate your feed while you locate @users.
- You can follow Lemmy/kbin communities from Mastodon (e.g. search "@[email protected]" and follow, posts will come in from that point, including every comment which fills your feed poorly), post back into Lemmy (there is a specific way to do this), and reply to threads also. Federation isn't pretty between Mastodon and Lemmy, it's up to the user if they want to persist. Recommended to have 2 separate accounts for full usability at this point. kbin has "microblogging" built in which is Mastodon "tooting", only one account required if you are a kbin user.
The Lemmy instances listed have some activity, until Lemmy matures the list may grow or shrink. Please review the communities as you desire and let me know if you find something better or the listed ones have died.
Search Engines for Lemmy:
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https://lemmyverse.net/ - Search by Instance or Community - Click on the 'House' icon to set your 'home instance' e.g. aussie.zone
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https://www.search-lemmy.com/ - using the "Find Communities" search by keyword will find active communities with more matches per word.
Bookmarklet:
javascript:(function() { const home = 'aussie.zone'; /*replace this with your local instance's host name */ const url = window.location.href; let community = url.split('/c/')[1]; if( !community.includes('@') ) { community += '@' + url.split('/')[2]; } if( community.endsWith( '@' + home ) ) { community = community.substring(0, community.length - 1 - home.length); } window.location.href = 'https://' + home + '/c/' + community; })();
Click on the above bookmarklet once you've created it and placed on your toolbar (search on how to make one) when browsing another instance's community. It should open up the page where you can subscribe directly from the aussie.zone instance (or change your instance in code above). If "Subscribe" isn't working, ~~"Create Post" and back out immediately~~ click on the community name and reload page, Subscribe should now be clickable (give it a couple of clicks as per Lemmy 0.18).
An alternative to a bookmarklet on a desktop or mobile browser, install 'Violentmonkey' and a Userscript such as this: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/469273-lemmy-universal-link-switcher
An extension for modern browsers: https://github.com/cynber/lemmy-instance-assistant
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