Vicinus

If you are willing to provide the area/industry you are interested, we maybe able to direct you better. I don’t know of any (general or specific) communities off the top of my head, but there was just a post about getting ideas for new communities.

Assuming there is not already a community that fits your purposes, can you provide some more details on what you want to get out of community? “Help and networking” is a bit vague to work with.

Additionally, would you be interested in starting and modding such a community? No pressure/expectation either way, just gathering potentially useful information.

I’ve gotten a few of them. I’m pretty certain they are spam or will be spam in the future. I block them.

If someone else has a better understanding of who/what they are, feel free to let me know too.

Copying, as you might not be able to see PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@anarchist.nexus response:

Dbzer0 is silenced on the piefed.social instance. I believe that you should (edit: not!) be able to read this comment (I’m not on dbzer0 but my instance is also Silenced 😆, so if you can’t see a dbzer0 user, you can’t see me too).

Edit: missed a punctuation.

.zip admins do make changes to the code (ex. removed the vote limiter). So they may have gone in and removed or altered the list.

As a slight clarification, Rimu specifically confirmed the change (voting restrictions) were not due to bandwidth concerns, but rather to curtail certain users from voting “too much”.

Also, confirmed the users in questions were not bots, just user who voted a lot (I’m in that category). My instance removed the limiter within a couple days of the update being implemented.

Maybe check out NodeBB. My recollection is that it’s a federated server software for forums that can interface with at least Mastodon and Piefed (probably Lemmy and Mbin too).

I believe I’ve seen some content from a forum in the past, but it’s tough to tell, as I think they just show up the same as any other threadiverse instance (a post in a community on an instance).

I’m not sure how you’d search for them though…