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

bedwyr@lemmy.world to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml – 149 points –

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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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.

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?

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

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

looking for... reasonably intelligent...

Fair question, sure, but then you reply with?

...theology...

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

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

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.

Maybe theology is discussions about OpenBSD founder Theo de Raadt.