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TO could you include information about the "where"? I have never heard of Peat or Caithness, I assume others also do not know those places.
Caithness - county in the Scottish highlands including the most northerly mainland point in the UK.
Peat - well the Wiki page would be a good start, I imagine.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caithness
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peat
I mean, I get your point but it's not like the answer to your question was difficult to find, you know?
Yes, obviously. But if it takes TO 5 seconds and 100 people 5 seconds each that is 500 seconds. If we are more people on Lemmy those 100 could also be 10'000.
The following is not a criticism of you or anyone else - we all started somewhere, and I would always encourage learning. However, a couple of points to consider:
I think a little longer than 5 secs to find a suitable link, copy that link and format it for Lemmy, and then make it clear that this was not part of the original story, but the main point is that virtually every link that I post to this community mentions some area of the UK. Is it realistic that I (and others) should then either embed a link to info for each one of those locations, or separately write some summary info on each one? If not every one, then where would one draw the line? Caithness in this case, but Cumbria, Dorset, Kinder Scout and Montrose Basin have each featured in recent items that I have posted - and hundreds of other places before them. Which should I expect a significant number of people who are interested enough to be following stories in the UK Nature and Environment community not to have heard of?
And much the same is true of peat. Inevitably, any related story could be the first time that someone somewhere will have heard of peat, but it is not exactly a niche subject: it has been in the headlines for both wildlife and climate change in the UK and elsewhere for a good few years now (decades, at least, in relation to wildlife) and it seems reasonable to expect that the vast majority of readers of items in the UK Nature and Environment community will be aware of peatland. And if I do include a link to more info on that, should I also do so for other habitats in other links? Chalk streams? Lowland Heath? Woodland? Meadows? Again, how could I realistically draw the line?
I have not read any previous posts, I was just randomly reading on Lemmy. I suspect others do the same. Obviously anyone in the loop knows what the post is about. It does not even need to be a link, just that I know which part of the world this is about (so UK here) would be enough.
Well, it is posted in the UK Nature and Environment community on Feddit UK. I don't know what you are using to browse with, but everything that I have used on mobile or laptop shows me which community an item is posted in at the very least, so that it was in the UK should have been reasonably clear, I would have thought.
All I see is the community named "nature" and the name of the TO, you. The only thing UK is the .co.uk in the link. I am using Connect.
I used to use Connect - moved to Voyager, which I found to have more useful features, but still have it on my phone. I have just taken a look and Connect shows me the name of the server as well as the community - so I don't know if that is an option somewhere in the settings.
However, yes, I am aware that the name of the community does appear simply as 'nature' in some cases. There isn't much I can do about that, as I didn't set it up.
Still, my original comments stand. The idea that I and everyone else should specify that each story is related to the UK - in a community that is specific to the UK - and would need to editorialise titles and content to do so (which would definitely draw negative comments) is unreasonable. And would that be sufficient for everyone? There are certainly people, for example, who are confused by entities like the UK, England, Great Britain etc and are not aware of how they relate to each other.
I usually browse by subscribed, but if I should choose to browse by all then there are always a scattering of stories that I know nothing about. I wouldn't expect that every one of those should include a wiki guide to the subject in question. I would expect that I would need to look it up myself.