Nix and NixOS
this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2025
144 points (95.0% liked)
Ask Lemmy
33475 readers
1116 users here now
A Fediverse community for open-ended, thought provoking questions
Rules: (interactive)
1) Be nice and; have fun
Doxxing, trolling, sealioning, racism, and toxicity are not welcomed in AskLemmy. Remember what your mother said: if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. In addition, the site-wide Lemmy.world terms of service also apply here. Please familiarize yourself with them
2) All posts must end with a '?'
This is sort of like Jeopardy. Please phrase all post titles in the form of a proper question ending with ?
3) No spam
Please do not flood the community with nonsense. Actual suspected spammers will be banned on site. No astroturfing.
4) NSFW is okay, within reason
Just remember to tag posts with either a content warning or a [NSFW] tag. Overtly sexual posts are not allowed, please direct them to either !asklemmyafterdark@lemmy.world or !asklemmynsfw@lemmynsfw.com.
NSFW comments should be restricted to posts tagged [NSFW].
5) This is not a support community.
It is not a place for 'how do I?', type questions.
If you have any questions regarding the site itself or would like to report a community, please direct them to Lemmy.world Support or email info@lemmy.world. For other questions check our partnered communities list, or use the search function.
6) No US Politics.
Please don't post about current US Politics. If you need to do this, try !politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world or !askusa@discuss.online
Reminder: The terms of service apply here too.
Partnered Communities:
Logo design credit goes to: tubbadu
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
I think you need to specify what you mean by cult. The way I personally understand it, a cult includes a leader who exploits their members for free labor, oftentimes for sexual gratification, and removes them from their friends and families while subjecting them to psychological manipulation. I'm having a hard time thinking of a hobby that meets the criteria I'm more familiar with.
This. There are defined criteria as to what a real cult is, and once you have any familiarity with that, you realize that 99% of what people call "cultlike" is really just culture.
Honestly, I don't think very many of them could really be described as such, as at the very least most hobbies either don't have a person or group that could be called it's leader, or if they do, it's generally some business that owns some relevant IP that very much isn't considered unquestionable and above criticism. You could get cults that emerge within some hobby group instead of taking up the whole subculture, but given even things as mundane as exercise groups have had this happen before, I'd guess that can technically happen in just about any of them.
Definitely warhammer. Can't stand those punks. Have you noticed a lot of warhammer lore reaction videos
load more comments
(2 replies)
Auditing pre-clears.
Is this the scientology stuff?
We seem to have a suppressive person in the chat.
(JK, yes, it is. I mis-read the question and gave an example of culty stuff that is a hobby.)
Yes, scientology is a full blown religious cult.
I saw cable TV for the first time in like 15 years recently and there are ADS for scientology, just... playing on normal channels, in breaks between reruns of Friends and Big Bang Theory. What the actual fuck.
Celsius energy drinks.
I had a coworker evangelize about them so I decided to try them out. Every time I got one and tried it some complete random would come up 'Hey! You like Celsius? Have you tried the [whatever] flavors? [Other flavor] is my favorite!'
I found them all gross.
load more comments
(1 replies)
Improv
Warhammer. The tabletop one with the figures, not the video games.
Vacations/travel for some people. Its clearly something where they have zero clue about their privilege and zero self awareness as they talk about it.
Parenting. Seriously, it becomes some people's only fucking identity and the way they talk about it feels like religious proselytizing mixed with a bit of used car salesperson energy.
Comic conventions. Some people make it uncomfortable how seriously they take it.
Wasting some time on Lemmy trying to leave shitty comments just looking to rile people up or something.
load more comments
(1 replies)
Computer Keyboard Enthusiasts
Hanging out with angry white dudes in white sheets who carry flaming crosses.
People who play Call of Chuthulu every single day
Where!? Point me in the direction of these people so I can uh... show them the error of their ways! But first I will have to gain their trust by joining, of course.
Politics, obviously.