@TheBreadmonkey Celebrity Great British Shake It Off.

Nobody believed that they managed to book Taylor Swift to appear.

Welcome :)

Yeah, welcome. You captured the vibe perfect 👌

Dark, wet and sticky

Welcome! Bring a friend. Bring another… No, on second thought, one is enough. No need to get crowded.

I remember seeing a toki pona community somewhere, but I’m not sure where it went.

Same :)

linguistics projects like constructed languages

Are you making your own? I also have a slight interest in the idea of conlangs.

There used to be a fairly active linguistics community here, but the science-themed instance it was hosted on went dark over a month ago. Hopefully it comes back.

I can’t imagine there’s not a chess sub here, surely it’s big enough?

Music wise there are some communities, maybe !obscuremusic@piefed.social fits the bill for now?

Niche communities built around specific interests, from chess variants to linguistics projects like constructed languages. And occasionally something else, like a niche heavy music genre or something along those lines.

But I’m pretty burned out on Reddit, especially the way things are run over there

There’s an entire Mastodon instance devoted to linguistics at Polyglot City, and a Toki Pona PeerTube instance at seka pona la! Lemmy is only partially interoperable with most of the other Fediverse platforms, since their focuses are just so different. However, there’s definitely a few ways to interact with them from here I think.

Also right here we’ve got communities for:

• !shavian@lemmy.world
• !languages@lemmy.world
• !linguistics_humor@sh.itjust.works
• !esperanto@sopuli.xyz

And actually lots more, this is just a sample.

@hacktopus Yes. I mean travelling can expose you to all sorts of new things but I don't like the idea that people who don't travel are automatically closed minded.

There might be some truth in that, but I don't like how the idea is being asserted. It comes across as classist to me.

You could take the same idea and say that going on a package holiday to Ibiza doesn't count while 'real' travelling is going somewhere less touristy. You see?

Ironically, the quote about being judgemental appears to make judgement on how people get their life experience - ie. you have to get it in the right way by travelling.

📜 Scrolls 50 is live!

https://shellsharks.com/scrolls/scroll/2026-11-10

Thanks to those mentioned below. Their work is featured in this issue.

@soatok @andros @smallcircles @panos @worldwideshen @adjb @jak2k @mitch @pablo @olivia @khleedril @deadparrotbbs.com @mttaggart @misty @Artieficr @justincox @jimmitchell @wynlim @me @joost @artlung @lrhodes @dan @CodenameTim @tropicalreason @occult @iskropixel @Ailantd @adelfaure @gavinanderegg @hakan_geijer @coffe @tortyswelt @klausblog

#infosec #indieweb

@stux And it was a lie right from the start.

They just kept making it bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger.

What are your usual corners?

@shellsharks @soatok @andros @panos @worldwideshen @adjb @jak2k @mitch @pablo @olivia @khleedril @deadparrotbbs.com @mttaggart @misty @Artieficr @justincox @jimmitchell @wynlim @me @joost @artlung @lrhodes @dan @CodenameTim @tropicalreason @occult @iskropixel @Ailantd @adelfaure @gavinanderegg @hakan_geijer @coffe @tortyswelt @klausblog

Thanks for including https://coding.social/blog/prosocial-web

Though linking it as "mainstream appeal" misses the point of the article, I think. Mainstream appeal is what 'growthhackers' of the fediverse are seeking. Prosocial web isn't about that.

It is about finding a new way, gaining a different perspective, on what social networking entails. It is about "reimagining social" online. Social networking is what we do for ages offline. We need natural extensions of that into our digital worlds. Where that becomes seamless, we shape a peopleverse.

Right now fedi is one big microblog, soapboxes on public squares where I can only shout this msg to you.

@nev No one’s mentioned Therac-25 yet.

Oh crap. I just volunteered.

First, here is my brief guide to Jodorowsky https://projectedfigures.com/2017/01/09/brief-guide-alejandro-jodorowsky/

It’s a lot quieter, so feel free to contribute or… it stays quiet :)

Lemmy is only one part of the Fediverse, Mastodon is there as well

look around and enjoy

Welcome, I like your energy!

Try to be an active participant, comment, vote, post if you feel like it around the topics that interest you.

And a word of advice : heavily curate your experience. block people, communities and instances if necessary to cut down on negativity/noise and you’ll have a great time here.

Hope you stick around!