Lemmy is great and it is in essence an aggregated forum. But I would like to know how I can also find forums about specific topics.
For example I am very interested in football but the only place I can really find any discussion of football is r/soccer on reddit. I would like to find smaller but active forums where the discussions are more slow paced and drawn out over time.
I would like to know how to find these places on the internet, if they still exist, for any topic.
There’s a searchable list of lemmy communities at https://lemmyverse.net/communities
Edit: which I’ve realized doesn’t answer your question about the internet at large, but hopefully still helps
This is a nice resource to have for sure. It is a bit different than what I had in mind but with lemmy’s current size I think I will get some of what I am looking for.