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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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:
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!
!archaeology@mander.xyz
!palaeontology@mander.xyz
!permaculture@lemm.ee
!permaculture@lemmy.world (more users)