What happened to the potential consolidation between !world@quokk.au and !globalnews@lemmy.zip?

!fedigrow@lemmy.zip for people interested to see how it is to grow a community, week after week

Shout out to anon[some numbers] over at Supurbowl, literally bringing cute owls to everyone alone!

Teknevra keeping furry_memes alive

That would be anon6789@lemmy.world and seconded!

A lot of those types are just reposting reddit’s top content. Or copying from facebook.

yeah but replies are seen by few, posts by many, so you need to think much more about relevancy.

It's even easier to lurk and just look at the funny memes. A post with no comments gives the poster no encouragement or feedback.

4.8K posts in 2 years… I’m doing my part!

Me too, thanks, but I wouldn't call the shitpost/meme communities I post to small

I say that still counts. Most of mine are in tiny animal communities, and I really enjoy curating animal pics. It’s become a hobby for sure.

The nipples are censored. Does this imply they're girlboobs?

Why did they censor Sisyphus's nipples

I love the heck out of my regular commenters. I might be the foundation of a community, but without the people commenting, it's still an empty house. It needs the people there having fun to be a place that will keep attracting people. I've always put at least as much effort into making people that do comment feel appreciated for doing so, and I think that's why I've found relative success on a very niche topic, as I focus on educational content rather than the major focus on more general jokes that a wider audience can more easily enjoy.

That's meeeeeee! I always feel unworthy when you guys mention me, but I love that you have a fun time talking about grumpy birds with me.

You missed a great opportunity for an "Atlas shrugged" quip.

on the bright side, now I don't have to look at reddit or facebook.

besides, that's why I like fedimemes, bc it's usually fediverse-original.

I mainly wish people would add a little something if they did that. Some kind of context, or a particular bit of the articles they share that makes it significant to them, etc. Basically anything that would make it seem like a human posted and not a repost bot.

I pull a lot of my content from Facebook since most sources are photography hobbyists and charities, which just use that as a free quick and easy platform to reach the most eyes so they can focus on making content. But I try to contextualize what is going on in photos, can provide background to the species or the procedure being done, and answer any questions about things, which I feel is a good value add service by me sharing it here.

I will post things from my personal work too, but the animal thing isn't my day job, so other than my weekly clinic shift or vacations, there's only so many opportunities I get to shoot my own owl photos! But I still get to bring a lot of daily joy to people that won't touch those other platforms, and I add a lot of research and experience they wouldn't get by going to the original source.

There is still use being a straight content curator, but I think it's just really going the extra mile by adding something to it yourself that can enhance it.

You are an animal content machine! If I see an animal that I didn't post, I usually expect to see your name under it.

I get so overjoyed when you guys are able to post sightings of your own, and Lady Butterfly's Medieval owls the last couple weeks have been a nice addition as well.