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(Serious) What are your favorite high quality Lemmy communities? (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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?

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 7 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This website is very helpful for finding communities and instances

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago

Did not know of this! Gratitude and sincere thanks 🙏

[–] can 3 points 7 months ago

This is where apps are nice. You could also just go to the instance's website and view their local community list.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

looking for... reasonably intelligent...

Fair question, sure, but then you reply with?

...theology...

You're why we can't have nice things. 🤌🏼

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Maybe we should allow all kind of discussion in online communities? Theology is a valid discussion topic.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Allow it, sure, but insinuate is anything more than the study of systemic superstition that's hobbled the species and upheld exploitation since the dawn of mankind? That's irresponsible at best.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Bruh I listed it alongside "wild theorycrafting", calm down.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago

"Bruh", by that logic: you listed it before philosophy. Simmer, child.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Maybe theology is discussions about OpenBSD founder Theo de Raadt.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Linux vs BSD holy war incoming

[–] kwomp2 -3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah lets get some social science running in this b**** Ü Perspective this techie fest (<3) could use some of

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

As a techie, yes please, we definitely need different points of view