Warhammer - people at a local club have told me it is “heresy” to even refer to one page rules - a newish and very innovative wargame. That’s the lifestyle players of course not everyone, the people who paint 20h a week while listening to Warhammer audio books play 8hs a week and do fuck all besides that. I have met loads of cool people in the hobby too, but omg those guys
Nix and NixOS
Adults going to DisneyWorld as if it was a sacred shrine
Arch Linux
Anyone using Linux, based on 60% of the content on lemmy. Uh… maybe also lemmy.
Have you not heard of our Lord and Savior glorious Debian?
Heresy, the savior is Arch!
Burn the witch! openSUSE is the messiah.
Y’all have some weird ideas about what a hobby is. Parenting as a hobby cracked me up, that’s just having a family, you presumably grew up in one of those. Religion isn’t a cult-like hobby, it’s a hobby-ish cult.
On the parenting front though, I think those pageants are, those kids do it for a hobby and I would consider it abusive, and hard to exit once they are in.
Nah, i must disagree here. The posters are right about being a hobby for some people. In two very bad ways
There are (usually the dads) who only pick it up once in a while the same way they go mountainbiking,etc. Then they usually try to “make up” what they didn’t do the rest of the days and make it “extra fun”. (As usual the Simpsons did a good take on it in their fun dad episode) But they don’t give a rats ass the rest of the time. They don’t go to the doctor with the kid,they don’t know their school schedules,etc. They pick their hobby up maybe twice a month. I hate these people - because they are so numerous. When I am out with my kiddos I get comments “oh,do you babysit for your wife?” “Oh, it’s nice you take that burden off your wife once in a while.” Like what? Are you fucking crazy? My wife is the actual main income earner and this is not the 50ies.
The other kind is as bad,imho. The overinvolved ones. The ones that basically want to do everything so right that it becomes their hobby (or obsession). The “oh no, my kid can’t eat sugar that is not made from XY” “I will not raise my child, i will love-raise them”, etc. Note that while these have a crosssection with helicopter parents they are a distinct group themselves,as some prefer an intentional other style of parenting (all nature and free roaming,etc.). But they will focus on it - countless blogs, books from unqualified authors and instagram posts will be read, countless discussions, for them it becomes their hobby…or more.
So…there are some people who have parenting as a hobby. And that doesn’t mean the ones who have no time for hobbies anymore - as parenting is fucking hard sometimes.
Communism. There’s iconography, a separate way of using language, chanting, gatherings, books, meetings, clothing, hero mythology, doomsday plans of a revolution not unlike a rapture, and in some sects there are charismatic leaders and polyamory.
thats a political ideology identiy, it isnt a cult.
A political ideology with cult-like tendencies.
Communism isn’t a hobby or a lifestyle tho? its a political ideology.
In the US in 2025 it bears a strong resemblance to a hobby at times. No shade intended either. I’m a card-carrying member myself.
Just because something is a political ideology, doesn’t mean it can’t also be a hobby.
I don’t think that’s a hobby…
Adults who play board games
Board games are chill idk what you’re talking about
I think the cult has found me
Indeed, we can triangulate your position with dark magic, jumanji style.
Religion IMHO is a hobby.
Religion. 🤌🏼
Most of them…
The cult of…origami?
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.
I don’t think anyone would call their religion a hobby, though.
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.
oh no not the downvotes how will my children eat! listen to yourself for fucks sake
They said hobbies not belief systems.
Edgelord atheist mad at christianity and islam: “every religion is genocide and hate, and I hate them.”
Buddhists , jains, pagans, etc: “hey excuse you buddy.”
I mean, Buddhists just did a genocide in Myanmar. They have a cleaner track record than Abrahamic faiths for sure, but if you spend serious time in actual Buddhist places it fills the exact same societal roles.
Neopaganism is a bit of an odd one out in that list, because it’s a newly invented thing.
