something like discuss.online, or lemmy.zip or lemmy.cafe?
this post was submitted on 05 Jun 2025
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@[email protected], is this a community your instance might be interested in hosting?
I know you mostly have more serious communities, but you do have a couple more laid-back communities like [email protected].
I'm also kind of surprised that [email protected] isn't a thing.
Hi! I’ve looked through /r/shittyaskscience and I think it leans too far into jokes with very little actual science content. The idea behind mander is to support specific, niche science-related communities, so a general joke-focused community doesn't really fit.
For 'science_memes', the mod is a very capable superstar and I agree with their vision of memes as a laid-back way to connect people to science. It’s plausible that a community like 'shittyaskscience' could achieve something similar, but honestly I think science_memes already covers that space well.
As for !askscience - it simply hasn’t been created yet. It would be more fitting than 'shittyaskscience', but I still prefer encouraging people to ask lichen questions in the lichen community, mushroom questions in the mushroom community, chemistry questions in the chemistry community, and so on. I support content flowing toward niche communities rather than having a centralized place for general questions. A general community would be more popular, but popularity isn’t a goal, and it works against the underlying philosophy. Niche spaces may be smaller, but they offer much better signal-to-noise for building meaningful connections.