I hope this post offers a good way to discover new communities.
Here’s a list of internet forums from Wikipedia
- lemmy
- hackernews
- tildes
- lobste.rs
- discord
Is lobsters similar to tildes?
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.
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?
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.
Here’s a collection of awesome RSS feeds I know about. I’m not too familiar with other lists but perhaps others are?
