Anyone using Linux, based on 60% of the content on lemmy. Uh… maybe also lemmy.
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I am not in a cult.
This is not a cult.
By the way since you never asked, can I interest you in a new way to use your computer?
Arch Linux
Pff hater, Arch users are definitely not cultists who are obligatory to share their divine wisdom and forcibly announce that they are part of this cul... Hobby.
I use arch btw
If you don't tell people you use Arch, then they come and install Ubuntu on your PC.
If you don't tell them, how'd they know you're better than them? Smh
I would say NixOS might be even more cultish. I am a part of that cult.
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CrossFit.
Religion. All of them are cults. Every single fucking one.
Nothing. No other hobby even comes close to the death, genocide, rape, murder, and hate generated by that type of religious cult. It's every single year, too. Every single year religion tops its hate, greed, and pain inflicted on everyone.
Your particular brand of invisible sky wizard is different from my particular brand of invisible sky wizard. Die heretic!
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I don't think anyone would call their religion a hobby, though.
They said hobbies not belief systems.
What a fun answer!
Yeah seriously. It's pretty severely missed the point of this thread.
Ironic that it looks like someone came through and downvotes every answer in this thread other than this one, considering. It'd be pretty great if the mods banned whoever that was.
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Internet personalities/"influencers"
One way money transfers, controlling people's time and career aspirations, dividing families, rape, and murder.
Not all "Influencers", but some notable cases.
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Kpop-Stans, Warhammer, Disney - Adults, Harry Potter.
Warhammer.
Competitive Super Smash Bros Melee, we won't ever die. And Nintendo has been trying to rub us out since 2008.
Nintendo has been trying to rub us out
"Stop, Nintendo. You're just mashing it."
. And Nintendo has been trying to rub us out since 2008.
dedication like that... phew. impressive.
I second DnD and Warhammer, and i'll add Magic the Gathering to this list
Yeah, anything that has you speaking in game jargon in public should qualify.
One of my friends at a pizza place a few years ago: "I can't believe I didn't get to poison anyone last night."
Me: "Dude, context! We are in public!"
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Gunpla, pop/labubu, liquid-cooing/overclocking, 3D printing, drones/RC
There is a bit of a threshold between an innocent hobby and a cult, but once crossed, it's.... yeah...
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At this point, trading card collecting and grading. Oh, a new series of trading cards for pokemon or yu-gi-oh or whatever dropped? Time for all the adults to buy out every single card in the store and then run home in hopes that their scam leaders like PSA will encourage their behavior by gracing them with a card they claim is worth money despite only being out for less than a week.
Card grading ain't nothing but a scam, cult, and great way to encourage the worst in people, while simultaneously gatekeeping trading cards from everyone with more than 2 braincells. Ain't nothing gonna change my mind about it.
Society for Creative Anachronism
Oh damn. I came here to answer this too, but was definitely not expecting someone else already to have said it.
I do HEMA, which has a healthy overlap with the SCA, but from what I've heard, the SCA has a pretty rigid structure and hierarchy with ranks and titles. I've heard about people winning bouts in SCA fencing against someone who is supposedly ranked higher than them, and getting shunned because of it. That's not healthy.
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There are two kinds of people who own a pressure canner - people who enjoy making preserves and fucking crazy people.
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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.
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.)
I feel like it would be easier to list the hobbies that aren't, based on the answers so far.
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Nix and NixOS
Any sort of hypebeast scam. Labubu, pop up clothing companies with no real design or quality, beanie babies, most crypto, specific vinyl collections. It's only worth something if you know some deep dark lore about it which requires effort to research and understand, then you're hooked. It's post capitalism cult energy.
Religion. 🤌🏼
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