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

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by bedwyr@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 27 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

That's been my experience for 95% of Lemmy communities right now, though. I don't know if it will last but for now, it seems pretty high quality.

[–] the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah i feel like this is how the early redditors must've felt. I don't want this to get huge frankly

[–] Shyfer@ttrpg.network 6 points 8 months ago

It was. But there were interesting effects from Reddit getting huge, like more niche subreddits and random encounters, like someone posting a proposal pictures and the targets of it being able to find it online. That probably wouldn't happen on Lemmy.

Probably a worthy trade for better discussion and less bots, though.