Doing research into online cults has been a bit difficult, with 764 and children of the waning star being the biggest examples that overshadow smaller accounts (the former not being religious at all), as well as spawnism. So, people of Lemmy, what are your experiences with online cults?
Edit for clarification: I am looking for cults in the traditional sense of the word: a closed off community with a distinct power structure and leader that is revered, with some sort of ideology (preferably spiritual but am open to all stories.)
The followers (indirect they don’t even realize they are followers) of Ellen G. White constantly try to kill my communities on Lemmy. So I get daily touches reminding me of them.
lol, you really stretched for that.
Crypto-adventists are fighting you on Lemmy? How did I miss that?
Let’s see if this works as a crypto-adventist: https://lemmy.ml/post/47788202 - https://www.statnews.com/2026/05/22/seed-oils-healthy-fats-tallow-fact-check-cardiac-health/ this person is a RD in Minnesota; the accrediting body that issues the RD license (Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics) is a private organization founded in 1917 as the American Dietetic Association by two 7th day adventists.
So the curriculum and foundation of what they studied and had to pass is from a 7DA founded organization, and it’s quite reasonable to think this person has never even heard of seventh day adventists at all, but they are pushing the agenda.
Ohh, I love that turn of phrase. 7DA adjacent groups!