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This could be websites to look up guides, places to buy quality products, or what to buy to get started. All being related to your hobby.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Pornhub. Don't ask me about my hobbies.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Designing washing machines

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

PH is by far the worst porn site

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Oscar winning story writing?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

Hackaday has been a great place as a starting point for a wide variety of hobbies. And for seeing what fun things people put together

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lichess.org is a great place to play chess, or to study it. Free, open source, run by a great team. Highly recommend.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah I find it's metrics on other games so helpful when studying a line.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

p5js.org. It is a beginner-friendly website for creating stuff in JavaScript straight into a browser. They also have resources and tutorials. After trying to learn coding for a long time, this is the place where it finally clicked for me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Coding train on YouTube is quite fond of p5js and has some awesome videos on building things in that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Ooh nice, I will definitely look into that

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

codewars.com is great if you're into coding puzzles. It has them in just about every language imagineable. I'm amazed it's not more well-known cos it's a great site.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The problem with "what to buy to get started" is that that question is tantalizingly juicy to advertisers. Therefore, when a place is found it is usually captured by low quality high dollar cost advertisers (like reddit or amazon or essentially all the other sites that carry and recommend hobbiest products).

I think your best bet is to get to know a few people who actually are doing the hobby (not a advertising influencer) and see the cost points for real hobbiests.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Isn't this the point of the OP, to get info from a few people who actually are doing the hobby?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He asked for a generalist site, so a site that has already been captured.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I don't see this reflected in the question at all.

All being related to your hobby.

The way I read it, this last line suggests the opposite. OP wants people to recommend resources specific to their own hobbies.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Garage Journal for people who love tools and anything mechanical.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Kind of a hobby

XDA has everything regarding modding android software: guides, discussions, projects you can download, etc

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Except for almost every device I want to put custom firmware on, apparently.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Lemmy seems to be a good place to start. ;)

I usually use ddg to search for sites, lurk there for a while to see what the questions and answers are and after a while either ask a question myself, when I like the site and haven't seen the questlon with appropiate answer in search results. That is, when I'm not member of a RL club and they have meetings/a site I can find the answer.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This website is helpful for finding anime to watch. It has a robust tag and recommendations system. If you don't know where to start I picked a favourite of mine.

https://anilist.co/anime/849/Suzumiya-Haruhi-no-Yuuutsu

https://jastusa.com/ is a great site to buy anime games.

https://jlist.com/ and https://www.amiami.com/eng/ are great merchandise sites.

https://www.hidive.com/ is a streaming site for anime that I find has a great selection

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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