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What forums/social media sites do you recommend? (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I hope this post offers a good way to discover new communities.

Here's a list of internet forums from Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_forums

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

            
              lemmy
hackernews
tildes
lobste.rs
discord

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Is lobsters similar to tildes?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Ya, altho I dont feel as comfortable commenting or posting there cuz they're a bit intense and it doesn't like humor as much in my limited experience. I like that I have an account but my engagement is much more limited there.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Which are you referring to? Less comfortable on tildes or lobsters?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Lobsters. I feel at home on basically every other platform altho I'm a bit more serious on HN but I'm just a bit uneasy on Lobsters. Prefer to lurk there, i do plenty of engagement elsewhere to the point its actually kind of nice to shut the hell up once in a while I suppose🤐

Edit: having said that, the quality of discourse is quite high and you learn a lot from it. I'm sure if I cleaned things up a lot I'd be fine but I like to be quiet on there and just lurk

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Thank you. I don't have an invite to lobsters but never thought about just browsing not signed in.