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Do you mean other than Reddit? I see multiple posts per hour on https://www.reddit.com/r/stephenking/, even multiple posts each day specifically about IT.
(I don't know how "expert" that is considered though)
The Threadiverse lacks content - it has like TV & movies, but usually communities based on a single (or two) TV series lacks content and dies off.
Here there is !movies@piefed.social that I think is the most active community, or even better to combine all movies & TV communities into one "channel" (Topic Feed) there is https://piefed.social/f/television, available only for Piefed not Lemmy (but your account is on PieFed.social so that will work for you).
I do not see even so much as a single post about Stephen King's "It" within the past half a year though, except this one https://piefed.social/c/fiction/p/1549073/giving-it-a-try, with zero comments and barely any upvotes.
The toxicity present in the Threadiverse is killing it off slowly, so I doubt you will find what you are looking for here.:-( (I would be happy to be proven wrong though)
I have only been on here for Hrs., done a lot of posting, & really only one-bad reply. So much better than horrible social media & most message boards have become, if they are not ghost towns or dead.
Yeah Reddit seems mostly bots these days, and people complaining about bots. I would presume the smaller more niche communities might be slightly better, though having to use the site is horrible.
Still, to find most news about what is going on, I do check there occasionally (weekly?), bc here most topics never get brought up or if they are then they don't get discussed.
The way I see it, here it is possible to have a discussion with someone kind and worth talking to, whereas on Reddit I've completely given up all hope (though sadly that is getting more rare here as well).
sorry, should have included I hate all social media, horrorable people there, tried Reddit.
I hate it too - fuck spez for all that he continually does, but you said "Discussion" and that's where people go afaik, other than even worse alternatives such as Facebook and Xhitter (which is what we on the Threadiverse call X/Twitter, because it sounds like "shitter", which seems very appropriate).
So I'm not trying to push you to converse on Reddit - far from it!! - just saying that it is the only place I know of where such discussions are being held currently.
Like, https://piefed.social/c/fiction/p/1549073/giving-it-a-try does not seem like much of a "discussion" to me, with nobody having commented. I forgot to mention, that singular post is all I could find across all of the entire Threadiverse (PieFed + Lemmy + Mbin + whatever of nodeBB and/or flarum is shared with us via the ActivityPub Protocol that would show up in a search). Maybe I just didn't use the right search terms - I tried "Stephen King it", and also tried adding "derry". Obviously just "It" returns a helluva lot more hits, but none seemed relevant in a casual scroll through them...).
Which does not surprise me, even as popular as that movie (series) is. The Threadiverse is mainly about discussion of why Linux is superior to Windows and politics, and most any other content if not ignored entirely is going to get downvoted for being less relevant by people who act like little children and refuse to block content on their own and instead just vomit their feelings onto anything they don't like (sorry, I'm salty about a recent discussion on this exact topic, but sadly I think this is also accurate too).
But you can be part of the change that you want to see in the world, and create a post to begin such a discussion? I doubt you will find "experts" here though, just people who use Arch Linux btw and will throw "well ackshually" comments at you.
Some of the words never seen before, not your fault, I am no longer involved the social media & popular message boards.
When I searched this website I found nothing about ‘Steven King’ ‘It Story’ & ‘It: Welcome to Derry’, so I am shocked you found anything.
The search function of PieFed is one of the major areas that the PieFed software lags behind the functionality of Lemmy - in nearly every other respect PieFed is ahead of Lemmy, in so many ways even ahead of Reddit itself (I mean in the technical sense), which is really saying something given how Reddit is a multimillion dollar company and PieFed is a handful of people donating software in their free time. (Although of course the goal of Reddit making new "features" has exclusively been to increase their profits, at the expense of the user experience for the vast majority of their user base, sadly 😭)
Note that this situation won't last all that long: PieFed's pace of new feature development is a fantastic and encouraging sight to see, they are so great about it!! (Also, the lagging behind of searching functionality is partly my fault and others who would rather see different features have higher prioritization than that one, which is rarely used in comparison to things like smoother commenting and posting and interacting with notifications that we all do multiple times a day, often many times an hour even.)
Anyway, for searching (and pretty much nothing else) I use Lemmy software rather than PieFed. And to its credit Lemmy's search, which was already pretty fantastic to begin with, recently got a lot better by e.g. allowing you to restrict keywords to post titles only. Note that to use searching you don't need an account on a Lemmy instance - you just pick one and go for it. That said, lemmy.world tends to be very behind in software upgrades - they prioritize stability over new features - but e.g. I know that Discuss.Online has the post title restriction feature, see e.g. this search. Searching using Lemmy is kind of an art, e.g. the default is Top All Time rather than something more commonly useful like New, but you will quickly pick it up.
And I am excited to think how good searching will become on PieFed, when it rolls out. Which I selfishly hope is not soon, because I would still like to see more common user interactions get additional polish first, e.g. it is still the case that sometimes you can get a notification but clicking it does not take you to the space in the post where that conversation was taking place, which is SUPER annoying, whereas searching can always be done by falling back on a Lemmy instance (even though you then have to go through the additional work to find the community on your local PieFed instance - but only if you want to vote or comment - whereas to simply read it you can remain on the Lemmy instance without an account necessary).