(Serious) What are your favorite high quality Lemmy communities?
(Serious) What are your favorite high quality Lemmy communities?
What are some of your favorite communities that feature topics like literature, science, ecology, aerospace, technology, politics, history, arts, culture, theory, and debate?
Where do responsible, respectful adults go for discussions and for substantive, high quality posts and comments by decent human beings?
(Not just limited to academic/intellectual topics, could be anything from hobbies to defense contracts to careers to skills. Just looking for respectful, reasonably intelligent, informed, relatively engaged communities.)
Also, are forum aggregators like Lemmy and Reddit even the best places to find such communities outside of listservers, universities, and academic conferences?
Where do responsible, respectful adults go for discussions and for substantive, high quality posts and comments by decent human beings?
I don’t think you will find this Utopia online
I thoroughly enjoy MetaFilter (one of the last surviving community blogs from the 90s) and Tildes (a more recent attempt at capturing the same feel). Text-heavy discourse, minimalist design, human-scale moderation, and moderately gatekept (MeFi has a $5 fee, Tildes is invite-only). PM me if you're interested.
This is what small forums with good moderators used to be, back in "the old days". Modern forums (and Lemmy) just don't have quite the same feel any more.
There used to be a website called WiserEarth (and then later Wiser.org). This was an internet utopia for intellectual, empathetic discussion about sociopolitical, environmental, ecological, and economic discussion. Really miss that community. But yeah, few. And far between.
Haven't found IRL either
nor I found it in my dreams
So, check out communities on mander.xyz for science topics and slrpnk.net for ecology.
I don't know yet of any good munis on lemmy for theology, philosophy, or wild theorycrafting, but I'm interested if anyone has recommendations.
Myself being very new to Lemmy, would you possibly be able to explain how to search by instance? Is it about finding the right app, or is it simpler to just sign up via different instances?
This website is very helpful for finding communities and instances
This is where apps are nice. You could also just go to the instance's website and view their local community list.
looking for... reasonably intelligent...
Fair question, sure, but then you reply with?
...theology...
You're why we can't have nice things. 🤌🏼
Yeah lets get some social science running in this b**** Ü Perspective this techie fest (<3) could use some of
As a techie, yes please, we definitely need different points of view
You should probably get off .world and go make an account over at mander.xyz. That way your home instance will be full of the kind of communities you seek and you can just supplement it with others.
Also, we're still building this thing. Feel free to come browse c/13thFloor@kbin.social, the very inactive but super cool arts community started by @Arotrios and currently being looked after by me until he gets back. Proper link in my bio.
If you use exclamation, links work ;) !13thfloor@kbin.social
Thanks. It doesn't work for me to type that with the way kbin formats (we use two lots of @ so what you typed is just plain text to me) so I have to do it with urls and was being lazy.
I have both lemmy and kbin formats for everything in my bio but I'm not sure if Lemmings can read my bio.
Only for Lemmy. I think Kbin accounts access magazines a different way, but not sure. Sometimes I hear an @ sign works, sometimes I hear it doesn't, so I'll throw it in anyway:
@13thfloor@kbin.social (for people on Kbin)
Yep, just did, because I happen to agree with this being a good idea 👍
That’s a very cool art community btw. Eclectic, museworthy tastes without excessive pretense.
@bedwyr hey, cool!
The coolness was all Arotrios and his crew, who are awol. I'm not really able to do it justice but it has potential and I try to keep it vaguely running. Please feel free to post there.
The paradox introduced by threads like these is that they flood the communities with shit.
It’s like when you build a really good road or freeway. Everyone starts using it and now it’s not good anymore.
To me, real excellence is self evident and doesn’t need to be recommended outright
I take this point to heart. I have no problem with respectful individuals trying to better themselves through enrichment, and hope that the diversity of Lemmy communities translates to bastions of high quality standards not possible on centralized platforms like Reddit. Like anything innovative and somewhat disruptive, Lemmy is another social experiment. Personally I’m optimistic that moderators of many communities will maintain high QC and exclusivity.
In my own experience I found that .world communities are usually the ones to stay away from. Most of the comments devolve into petty bickering and go off topic quickly. It was a great improvement when I made a new sub list of topics from other instances. They arent as active, but the quality of discussions is higher and respectful.
Where do responsible, respectful adults go for discussions and for substantive, high quality posts and comments by decent human beings?
In my experience, these are specific communities / websites with their own forums.
Yep go to now there i just made two posts and you know i only post "high quality"
plugging !cfb@fanaticus.social. I know that college football probably isn't the most popular activity for those of us in the fedi, but honestly we've got a decent community going, even if a little small.
Femcel memes
Phew… good question. It very much depends on your perspective I guess.
As an IT person I like it science, jokes and news but I also enjoy other things, not necessarily „professional“ but definitely not shitposting. If thats what you‘re after, you might want to look at everything on programming.dev, some stuff on lemmy.ml, a little bit on world and so on.
If you need even more formal I think you‘re out of luck atm since we‘re only at the discussion phase about a federated xing/linkedin. That would probably be more business oriented and rather formal/respectful.
Besides that, we are in a somewhat good situation atm - although my blocklist is now over 100 people so your mileage may vary.
Whatever is related to science, technology and art. Usually those communities have respectful people and genuinely want to share knowledge and engage in debate.
You might like Tildes ...
If it's still closed you can email em.