I’m giving it a go posting something to !animals@lemmy.world each night.

@JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social was talking to me about it, and I have been finding some real wild stuff the last few nights as I scroll my feed looking for my owl content.

All the other animal communities feel “cute” but I’m more interested in education, conservation, and rehab, so I often feel my stuff doesn’t fit the vibe of the other existing communities, so when presented with the offer to help revive a dead generalist animal community, it seemed interesting.

I enjoy most every animal, and there are plenty of times I come across non-owl things I’d like to share. This week so far I came across a half dozen squirrels who naturally became entangled, my clinic has a fox receiving hydrotherapy, and our neighbors got a pair of leucistic deer.

While I don’t expect at this point to spend as much time on it as !superbowl@lemmy.world, it’s nice to have as an alternative so I’m not stuck on a single subject all the time, and I should be able to find at least one unique thing a day as I scroll.

Starting user count was around 190 and is already up almost 20 users, so we’ll see what momentum we can build, especially if some others join in.

The bimonthly tourney is over til July… so !sumo@lemmy.world is prolly going dormant for a while!

Idk if this is for mods or whatever but the communities I have been posting in have been relatively responsive