My title might be a bit hyperbolic, but stuff like this worries me. I love to read and I love reading on a kindle. This has been going on for a while, but it has now reached absurd levels.

  • Dusty@l.dustybeer.com
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    For me it’s fantasy. Stuff like Dungeon Crawler Carl, Joe Abercrombe or R A Salvatore etc… If you have a suggestion for an active community that’s not on discord I’d love to hear it.

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      1 year ago

      Hmmm I am more of a sci-fi person, but I’ve definitely still seen some threads talking about fantasy books. I’m guessing you’re already on the main book communities like !books@lemmy.ml !literature@beehaw.org ? They are pretty active and I do see discussion on threads talking about fantasy books. There is also the fantasy community !fantasy@lemmy.ml – which does admittedly have pretty low traffic (though, you could be the change you want to see…). I found one niche community that was very recently made !cozyfantasy@wayfarershaven.eu

      I get how hard it can be to find active book reading communities & wish I had more suggestions in the fantasy realm. If you have a specific sub genre in mind, search for it or maybe even make a community for it. I was surprised to find a few different scifi sub genres already had active communities on lemmy & even recently made communities are growing fairly quickly with the new users.

      Good luck finding your next page turner & lmk if you want sci-fi recs :)

      Edit: to add and un-add exclamation points

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        Just a heads up, I think you should remove the exclamation points in your links, it resulted in a 404 for me before I removed them.

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          1 year ago

          using a exclamation mark should work, and it does work exactly as intended for me. Each of these links properly opens to the community on my local instance

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          thanks for the heads up, ill change that

          update: I tried removing them, but it made it so the links no longer worked for me, so I put them back

    • Zagaroth@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      Seconding Royal Road.

      Fair disclaimer: I am an author on there. :) Stories are free (generally), but lots of authors have Patreons going.