Anyone using Linux, based on 60% of the content on lemmy. Uh… maybe also lemmy.
I am not in a cult.
This is not a cult.
By the way since you never asked, can I interest you in a new way to use your computer?
How about Linux on a Thinkpad? DOUBLE CULT!
Arch Linux
Pff hater, Arch users are definitely not cultists who are obligatory to share their divine wisdom and forcibly announce that they are part of this cul... Hobby.
I use arch btw
If you don't tell people you use Arch, then they come and install Ubuntu on your PC.
If you don't tell them, how'd they know you're better than them? Smh
I would say NixOS might be even more cultish. I am a part of that cult.
It's absolutely crazy to me that there are unironically people recommending Arch to newbies.
CrossFit.
Adults going to DisneyWorld as if it was a sacred shrine
never understood the appeal either lol
Religion. All of them are cults. Every single fucking one.
Nothing. No other hobby even comes close to the death, genocide, rape, murder, and hate generated by that type of religious cult. It's every single year, too. Every single year religion tops its hate, greed, and pain inflicted on everyone.
Your particular brand of invisible sky wizard is different from my particular brand of invisible sky wizard. Die heretic!
I don't think anyone would call their religion a hobby, though.
They said hobbies not belief systems.
What a fun answer!
Yeah seriously. It's pretty severely missed the point of this thread.
Ironic that it looks like someone came through and downvotes every answer in this thread other than this one, considering. It'd be pretty great if the mods banned whoever that was.
oh no not the downvotes how will my children eat! listen to yourself for fucks sake
Competitive Super Smash Bros Melee, we won't ever die. And Nintendo has been trying to rub us out since 2008.
Nintendo has been trying to rub us out
"Stop, Nintendo. You're just mashing it."
. And Nintendo has been trying to rub us out since 2008.
dedication like that... phew. impressive.
Linux
Warhammer
Crossfit
Internet personalities/"influencers"
Pickleball.
Kpop-Stans, Warhammer, Disney - Adults, Harry Potter.
Y'all have some weird ideas about what a hobby is. Parenting as a hobby cracked me up, that's just having a family, you presumably grew up in one of those. Religion isn't a cult-like hobby, it's a hobby-ish cult.
On the parenting front though, I think those pageants are, those kids do it for a hobby and I would consider it abusive, and hard to exit once they are in.
those kids do it for a hobby
The pageants are the parents' hobby. The kids are whisked into it at a vulnerable stage of development in which they don't have the agency to decide any of it for themselves.
At this point, trading card collecting and grading. Oh, a new series of trading cards for pokemon or yu-gi-oh or whatever dropped? Time for all the adults to buy out every single card in the store and then run home in hopes that their scam leaders like PSA will encourage their behavior by gracing them with a card they claim is worth money despite only being out for less than a week.
Card grading ain't nothing but a scam, cult, and great way to encourage the worst in people, while simultaneously gatekeeping trading cards from everyone with more than 2 braincells. Ain't nothing gonna change my mind about it.
Warhammer.
Knitting. It's part witchcraft, part voodoo.
Cycling. They go from 'this is fun', to full blown road dictators, in about 2 weeks.
Edit: just watch. The downvotes will likely display their cult rage.
Please explain exactly what you mean by "full blown road dictators", and clearly detail how it is different from "use the road in a completely legal manner in ways trying to keep yourself and others from getting run over by the many car drivers with a sense of entitlement to the road".
Found the cyclist.
Well you see, cars go faster and are stronger, so by being in the road you are a road dictator.
Society for Creative Anachronism
Oh damn. I came here to answer this too, but was definitely not expecting someone else already to have said it.
I do HEMA, which has a healthy overlap with the SCA, but from what I've heard, the SCA has a pretty rigid structure and hierarchy with ranks and titles. I've heard about people winning bouts in SCA fencing against someone who is supposedly ranked higher than them, and getting shunned because of it. That's not healthy.
I second DnD and Warhammer, and i'll add Magic the Gathering to this list
Yeah, anything that has you speaking in game jargon in public should qualify.
One of my friends at a pizza place a few years ago: "I can't believe I didn't get to poison anyone last night."
Me: "Dude, context! We are in public!"
Gunpla, pop/labubu, liquid-cooing/overclocking, 3D printing, drones/RC
There is a bit of a threshold between an innocent hobby and a cult, but once crossed, it's.... yeah...
I feel like it would be easier to list the hobbies that aren't, based on the answers so far.
Religion. 🤌🏼
Nix and NixOS
Honestly, I don't think very many of them could really be described as such, as at the very least most hobbies either don't have a person or group that could be called it's leader, or if they do, it's generally some business that owns some relevant IP that very much isn't considered unquestionable and above criticism. You could get cults that emerge within some hobby group instead of taking up the whole subculture, but given even things as mundane as exercise groups have had this happen before, I'd guess that can technically happen in just about any of them.
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