Maybe a niche question but I’m looking for a community focused on arts and culture around the world rather than sharing your own work.

I can easily find it somewhere like The Guardian, but I was hoping there was something in the fediverse or forum based for discourse.

Any ideas?

    • Varyag@lemm.ee
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      Oh my god I used to LIVE in Ultimate-Guitar back in the day. It was the first actual forum community I got into, and I played a lot of guitar, so I was always into the culture and news.

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        Oh my gosh, I’m getting flashbacks that bloody “wut” pear in The Pit! :) Me too, I miss that place being the biggest part of the internet to me, simpler and much more musical times! :)

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          THE GODDAMN PEAR! I saw people get banned over it lmao. Yeah, good times back then. Being online was a lot less bullshit.

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            Oh wow, I’m glad it wasn’t just a fever dream! Nobody I know was witness to it, so my friends look at me blankly if the pear ever comes up! :) People speedrunning getting banned from the pit via lolwut was always funny. 😂

            It truly was, just a bunch of people with a common interest being mostly pretty cool to each other… Damn that was a good forum. :) This is the nearest thing I’ve seen to the vibe of it, but still not with all the comedy and characters (yet!)

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    Arts and culture is a very broad topic area. It covers (among other things):

    • performing arts (eg plays, musicals, film, TV, radio)
    • visual arts (eg painting, drawing, sculpture, crafts)
    • literature (eg books, poetry, the various literary genres)
    • design (eg fashion, typography, architecture)

    Mastodon has several instances focussed on different aspects of arts & culture, eg:

    Different lemmy and kbin instances have various arts & culture communities (some are reasonably active, some aren’t). You can use community/magazine search tools to find ones to your liking.

    Eg to search for theatre related communities you could use:

    Note that due to the way the fediverse works, these search aggregators aren’t necessarily comprehensive. So it’s worth spreading your search over several tools.