I can’t make a comparison unfortunately as I haven’t joined lemmy.zip, but it seems like a good instance to me!
oolong
joined 1 year ago
This was my exact trajectory and reasoning, but I ended up adding lemmings.world after that. 😅
I have joined several instances and all have their pros and cons, but I'll plug the most recent one (lemmings.world) because it checked all of these boxes for me:
- Federated with both lemmy.world and beehaw.org
- Not federated with certain more problematic instances
- Stable/good uptime record
- Upvotes/downvotes, community creation and image uploads enabled
- I liked the name
Yes, I'd love an audiobooks community! I'd also like audiobook and ebook deals communities.
A headphones community exists! !headphones@lemmy.film
Beauty communities seem conspicuously absent for topics that have a large internet presence elsewhere. Makeup, skincare, hair, nail art, etc. I specifically miss the asian beauty sub.
We have a few general cooking/food communities that are nice and active, but I miss more specific things like ask culinary, chef knives, and communities geared toward dietary restrictions.
City and region-specific forums.
I loved this series but I consider the characters as a vehicle for the ideas. It’s not really a character-driven work; the author is more interested in how humanity as a whole would react to his fictional scenario than he is with writing characters with depth. I wouldn’t necessarily say it’s related to the genre but there are a lot of examples of this type of writing in science fiction. I also loved Dune but I feel the same way about its characters to some extent.