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

Here's a list of internet forums from Wikipedia

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[–] 12 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Honestly, just set up an RSS feed. The internet is a bunch of isolated echo-chambers where you self-select into the chamber with the narrative you favor.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I think almost all RSS feeds are just news aren't they? Maybe there is some collection of rss from personal blogs that are interesting to follow?

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    It can be news on topics you're interested in, blogs on topics you're interested in, comics, subreddits, etc. To give an idea, I follow:

    • Ars Technica for tech news
    • NASA for space news
    • Local blogs on food/events/news/ going on in my city
    • RockPaperShotgun for gaming news
    • "A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry" for blog posts from a history professor
    • Richard Y Chappell for blog posts from a philosophy professor
    • A few YouTube channels
    • A few niche Reddit feeds
    • XKCD for comics (most webcomic artists have an RSS feed)

    Depending on your RSS app, you can also follow podcasts. I use InoReader for the above but I prefer a dedicated podcast app. There's good/entertaining RSS feeds on the internet if you're willing to curate it! It's nice to get away from internet comments.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    Recommend? None.

    Find something you like. Format, UI, etc. I'm partial to the old early 2000s vBulletin forum format.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (5 children)
    • lemmy
    • hackernews
    • tildes
    • lobste.rs
    • discord
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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Is lobsters similar to tildes?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (3 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.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    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

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  • Following. There's a forum for everything - or almost everything.

    However, one gap that I'm aware of - I've not found a forum (or even fediverse magazine/community) for third culture kids. There were some in the past, but AFAIK they've all gone defunct by now.

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