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.
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
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
Did not know of this! Gratitude and sincere thanks 🙏
looking for… reasonably intelligent…
Fair question, sure, but then you reply with?
…theology…
You’re why we can’t have nice things. 🤌🏼
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.
Femcel memes
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.
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You might like Tildes …
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