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I'd argue that iNaturalist counts as a leisure research community. It's a platform for tracking animal and plant species and sharing your findings with others.
by vjk800 2y ago
I'd argue that iNaturalist counts as a leisure research community. It's a platform for tracking animal and plant species and sharing your findings with others. Of course most people who use it don't produce publications or any other conventional outputs of academic research, but still they are participating in researching the ecological communities that are present everywhere.
- nico 2y agoThank you! Yes, this is very much along the lines of what I was imagining Now I wonder if there are other communities like that one, but around other topics
- jfil 2y ago"Mindat" might be another one that fits. It is a community-built database of minerals. New minerala are still being diacovered and named by hobbyists & dealers.