It seems like any platform that features link aggregation is soon overrun by bots and self-promoters trying to drive traffic, and pages and pages of link posts versus pages and pages of people talking.

Are there any lemmy instances or other defederated networks that focus on Q&A, niche communities, and people conversing, instead?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (6 children)

For hobbies, depends, but there is the general pinned post in [email protected] which list a lot of crafting communities: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/842186

For parenting: [email protected]

Politics, you should be able to find a lot by searching that word into https://lemmyverse.net/

Finance? [email protected]

The thing is that people tend to post links as you can't really force people to post if they don't want to (or if they critical mass isn't there). I'm guilty of that in the [email protected] for instance, as I don't have kids yet, I can only but post articles.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Maybe the instance I’m on is wonky, because I can’t even find those communities - I just get the “top”/”default” type communities ala reddit: technology, news, etc, which are all linked mass media articles.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (3 children)

You might have to click the link twice, sometimes the first time the community isn't found because you are the first one on your instance to search for it

One link that works: https://lemmy.radio/c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Now I think my client (Memmy) is wonky too, because it can’t follow any of these links! Will try the web UI.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Did you manage to figure out what the problem is?

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