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I just realized I don't have many discussion communities on my feed. My feed is filled with all news articles and I rarely find any posts written by people to discuss stuff. The communities where they discuss normal life stuff or anything in particular, majorly with texts, is what I want, idk what you actually call them.

Thanks.

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[–] squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Check these two

They are PieFed communities but you can join them from Lemmy

[–] Noerknhar@feddit.org 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm still trying to understand the difference between Lemmy and PieFed, but they seem to be fully interoperable...?

[–] tal@lemmy.today 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Yes.

The Threadiverse has multiple intercompatible "Reddit-alike" software packages.

There's also Sublinks, written in Java, but I don't know for sure whether that's going to actually get the ball rolling. https://demo.sublinks.org/ Think they need more developers contributing.

EDIT: Note that while this approach is unusual for the centralized Web-oriented social media era, where typically one company controls the whole shebang and has one codebase, it is common for federated systems. There are many different NNTP server implementations for Usenet, many different XMPP server implementations for instant messaging, many different IRC server implementations for chat, many different SMTP server implementations for email, many different FidoNet implementations.

[–] GrantUsEyes@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Is there a difference between Fediverse and Threadiverse ? Or is just terminology so people understand the link to Meta's Theads?

[–] squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Threadiverse is a term for Fediverse platforms that provide threaded conversations, like Lemmy, PieFed, Mbin, NodeBB. The term was used before Meta's Threads was a thing.

[–] GrantUsEyes@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago

Thanks for the clarification.

[–] 1995ToyotaCorolla@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I'm rather fond of !dull_mens_club@lemmy.world . You need not be a man, and you post about the dull goings on of your personal life (e.g. "made a ham sandwich today," or "fixed my washing machine over the weekend")

[–] tal@lemmy.today 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

dull...fixed my washing machine

I mean, an incorrectly-operating washing machine can make things quite exciting indeed.

[–] PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

It's always awesome to see the community I created mentioned in the wild!

I also created !dullsters@dullsters.net as an independent alternative.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

!general@lemmy.world is General discussion

!politicaldiscussiin@lemmy.world is Political discussion

!chat@beehaw.org (not accessible from lemmy.world)

~~!chat@lemmy.one (inactive, server shut down)~~

!canada@lemmy.ca is a mix of news articles, discussion and anything Canadian that doesn't really fit well anywhere else.

[–] Zangoose@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Lemmy.one shut down so I wouldn't use that one anymore

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

Oh, right, good to know.

[–] Sergio@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I love dull mens club and dullsters

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

!nostupidquestions@lemmy.world is also pretty good.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

movies, entertainment, without getting potentially sanctioned or astroturfed like you on reddit for discussing the same things, especially people are so fixated on the actors that they would defend them even if became they became POS. TIL, and sometimes news.