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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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[โ€“] Nemo@midwest.social 40 points 9 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.

[โ€“] bedwyr@lemmy.world 6 points 9 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?

[โ€“] imaqtpie@lemmy.myserv.one 22 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This website is very helpful for finding communities and instances

[โ€“] bedwyr@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago

Did not know of this! Gratitude and sincere thanks ๐Ÿ™

[โ€“] can@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 months ago

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

[โ€“] kwomp2@sh.itjust.works -3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] Damage@slrpnk.net 9 points 9 months ago

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