I like that iNat isn’t like all the other social medias. Would you call it a social media? And it’s a great place to get information

The social part of iNat is definitely nice, so that I don’t feel alone when I’m happy about some obscure find. But I can share those finds in my facebook group and a German nature forum I belong to. What I value most is how iNat stores and organises my photos, with map, calendar and lifelist and upd…

I like that iNat is an archive of what/when/where I saw a particular species. I especially like that it is a place for me to keep a life list, a high quality one at that because my own IDs can get corrected or confirmed by others. I also like to see how the species I’ve seen are taxonomically relate…

That’s the first “all living” website I met, much easier than using forums, begging for ids of a few photos. iNat is a place to store your finds and it motivates you to go out more, I deleted many thousands of photos before I found out about iNat, because I believed those photos were useless, I imag…

[image] acacia-lizards: Would you call it a social media? The working scientists (some of them) resent being reminded that iNat IS social media first. Encouraging NON-scientists to ‘see nature’ is the purpose of iNat. If your photos are on your computer, for your eyes only, that, is not soci…

I like iNaturalist in how it engages more people to go out, explore, and gain an appreciation of the natural world.

I like iNat because it allows me to ID organisms that I know nothing about, and gives multiple opinions on an observation. It also allows me to see what organisms are where.

[image] swampster: I also like to see how the species I’ve seen are taxonomically related, so the idented tree of observed taxa is one of my favorite features. Interesting to see your tree. Can you tell me how to get to mine?

@JaneBP Here’s the link to yours: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/taxa?user_id=janebp

[image] swampster: Here’s the link to yours: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/taxa?user_id=janebp Thanks so much! That was very interesting to see!

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anon83178471 October 16, 2022, 12:10pm 5

A lot of people gave their answers to this on another thread: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/what-is-it-that-you-love-about-inat/34545?u=dallon

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