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Good morning, Lemmy. I come to you with a request for help. We want to crowd-map some communities on Lemmy.

Since we are on lemmy.ml, I'm taking for granted a degree of political alignment, which probably is not worth discussing in this thread.

Within the broader context of the Tech Workers Movement, we are building a database of communities, hashtags, influencers, or generally friendly digital spaces in which tech workers, or people generally interested in tech politics and tech unionization, congregate and produce/consume content. The goal is simply to help union organizers, movement builders, theorists, agitators, and really anybody involved in the tech workers movement to discover where to find online tech workers receptive to political content.

To do so, we have a quickly growing public database that accepts submissions through a form. We also explain the methodology used to curate the database and give hints on how to submit an entry.

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We want to focus a bit on expanding the Lemmy section, so feel free to submit your favorite techno-political communities. Communities generally about technology are also fine as long as they accept a degree of mild political content. If you just want to reply to this thread instead of submitting the form, it is also fine and we can have a discussion going and you can directly share your relevant communities with the other users.

Thanks in advance for your answers ^^

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is this a global mapping? Do you map communities and forums in all languages? I've seen you mapped forums used internationally but which seem to be in English only

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

There's a language field in the database to map the language too. The fact that there are only english-speaking communities is a temporary focus, because they allow to reach a broader target, but submissions in other languages are more than welcome. I'm actually not based in an English-speaking country and I'm not a native speaker, so for my own stuff I will eventually start contributing by mapping other spaces.