There is a long reads lemmy! /c/longreads and /c/reads (i subbed both but longreads has more content but still not much content) I was just there and i'm too dumb and new to link it properly but i found it by seaching "all" from my lemmy.world account.
I just read a great piece about the people who do the manual work of annotating objects in images which are then used to train AI mods. read another about the nation of tuvalu and it getting destroyed by climate change.
I had the same idea after i spent a bunch of time subbing a tons of communities on one account and then realizing actually i want to just look at regional news and politics sometimes and keep all the aww and meme type stuff separate.
I think you may want to branch out and look for policy discussion groups or political science groups. Something like that may not be up a d running yet either.I think its pretty obvious that many of reddits biggest subs would end up feeling similar here on lemmy because we all for the most part just came from reddit. Its kind of amazing how everyones at the same time like "fuck reddit!" But also. "Ok lets make a new reddit over here..."
I think there is a lot of hype going on here about migrations tbh. Lemmy is cool and all but reddit is certainly still generating/aggregating way more content and its where most lemmy content is originating at this moment. I think for now the tech folks are here setting up, a few of us are bumbling around discovering this, and everyone else is still on reddit. I am not a very techy person myself and lemmy is a weird system to wrap your mind around coming from reddit and I can see how people may not bother, especially this early. Just choosing an instance and then finding communities is like an absolute mindmelter if you're used to reddit and its' easy to see why people on reddit would not be keen to move away.
I think right now everyone wants to join beehaw because its big. Beehaw doesn't want to be big, it wants to be safe for its users and as a result defederated a ton of instances to maintain it. you're not missing anything by leaving beehaw behind. It's a blip on the radar in these early days. Yesterday i was kinda mad about it too, today I have just moved on and guess what...it's fine. I guess they plan on refederating at some point with lemme world and shitjustworks but for now, they are maintaining their community as they see best. I don't think it will work long term because as people get acquainted with what it actually means to defederate and how it creates an echo chamber (many don't yet understand how visibility of comments works on defederated lemmys), people on the outside will stop wanting in and people on the inside won't even realize how bubbled they have become.
why is it good? i thought the whole point was not to do centralization like that? I am having some trouble wrapping my headaround the idea of federated communities so I coud be missing something.
The rif creator recommended we come to lemmy.world. its why i am here.
sure, also there is a community called New Communities i subbed to and that's helped a lot!