I have a friend who鈥檚 thinking about checking out the fediverse, and is looking for more aerospace (& maybe mechanical?) engineering-focused spaces. Do you guys have a suggested Lemmy, Piefed, or Mastodon instance/community that focuses on those topics? Maybe even a STEM community could be good enough. I know most of us are tech nerds on here, but we鈥檙e more computer focused tech nerds 馃槄
My only requirement is that the instance can be viewed without sign-in, as I don鈥檛 want to force them to make an account to check it out.
Some very general space communities communities:
https://mander.xyz/c/space
https://sh.itjust.works/c/spaceflightThey are both pretty active by Threadi standard.
Mastodon: fediscience.org , that鈥檚 for all kind of science. Sign-ups requirements are to give your ORCID (persistent identifier for scientist in case of name changes etc)
Lots of great STEM communities exist on mander.xyz, but it鈥檚 an older and sometimes very slow Lemmy instance, so I would recommend accessing them via a more modern and far easier to use PieFed instance such as PieFed.social or PieFed.zip, e.g. no login needed to view https://piefed.zip/c/astronomy@mander.xyz.
- !aviation@lemmy.zip
- !aviation@lemmy.world
- #aviation tag on mastodon
Good list. What I love about these specialized spaces is they鈥檙e built around shared interests rather than algorithmic engagement.
I think that鈥檚 why projects like Zeitgeist resonate with fediverse folks - we鈥檙e trying to measure genuine opinion, not engagement bait. If you can see people who care about aerospace, or science, or privacy talking directly without an algorithm reshuffling the conversation, that鈥檚 the internet as it was meant to be.