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
nor I found it in my dreams
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- !history@ theres like 5 of these
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- !longreads@ like 5 different ones
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- !philosophy@ 5 of these
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Try scrolling through local on a few instances or look at top subscribed communities and you’ll find descent stuff.
I don’t wanna make a list of a 100. Some of these you’ll like, some you won’t, find what suits you.
Instances:
- slrpnk.net
- literature.cafe
- beehaw.org
- mander.xyz
Wow, thank you my friend. This is a wonderful list. Subscribing to most of these!
Edit: also, “InMyMind” is wonderful! Thank you for curating some fascinating content. 👍
Thanks!
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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.
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.
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plugging [email protected]. 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.
You might like Tildes …
If it’s still closed you can email em.
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