Growing global communities of people interested in Sentientism

Millions of people around the world are sentientists in that they are committed to evidence and reason and grant moral consideration to all sentient beings. Most of them haven’t yet heard of the term “sentientism”.

Sentientism is just a worldview, not an organisation. There’s no membership (although you can declare yourself a sentientist here) and no rules (beyond the definition of sentientism itself). However, there is a wide range of global online communities and movements springing up around Sentientism.

If you find Sentientism interesting, we’d love you to come and join our biggest, friendly, global community here. Anyone interested is welcome, whether or not you count yourself as a sentientist. We have people from around 100 countries involved to date – a mix of academics, activists, content creators, policy people and (the vast majority) interested lay people.

We also run a range of other online fora listed below. Join as many or as few as you like. Some focus on live conversation, others are more “post and comment”, while others are good places to find resources.

Some have also set up local Sentientism groups – we’d love to see more so why not set one up yourself. We’d love to help!

Facebook (private)

Our most lively online community with people from around 80 countries. We have a fascinating mix of academics, activists, policy-people and writers – but mostly interested lay people (including me). The group is private and closed to the outside world – but open to anyone to join.

Join

Facebook page (public)

Our public Facebook Page. Anything you post or comment here can be read by anyone.

Join

@Sentientism on Twitter

We also maintain a Twitter list of confirmed and suspected sentientists you can subscribe to and a list of people who have added #Sentientist to their bio. Tweet us if you’d like to be added (or removed). The “suspected” sentientists are largely vegan humanists and atheists. The list includes some famous people that might surprise you. There’s a Twitter Direct Message Group here too – use the “contact us” form if you’d like to be added.

Join

Sentientism Sub-Reddit

Great place for resources and links that relate to sentientism. Feel free to join, post new stuff, up/downvote and comment. There’s a chat room too.

Join

Sentientism on TikTok

TikTok is short videos. Despite threats from my children, Sentientism is there!

Join

Sentientism on Instagram

Images, video and conversations!

Join

Discord server

Good place for text (real-time or asynchronous) or voice chat. Set up and run by @PhilipMPowell.

Join

Mastodon

Mastodon is a free, open source microblogging social media platform somewhat similar to Twitter. You have to pick a server for your account to run from but you can follow and interact with everyone across the whole federated network. Follow us @Sentientism@toot.community.

Join

WhatsApp

This community has a broadcast channel and a group where we can all chat.

Join

Signal group

Good for real time text chat. Secure end to end encryption so helpful for those for whom talking openly about having a Sentientist worldview might present risks.

Join

Telegram

There is a chat linked too. Good for real time text chat.

Join

Goodreads group

Our most lively online community with people from around 80 countries. We have a fascinating mix of academics, activists, policy-people and writers – but mostly interested lay people (including me). The group is private and closed to the outside world – but open to anyone to join.

Join

Linkedin

LinkedIn page you can follow and a LinkedIn group you can join. These are good places for those whose careers link to Sentientism.

Join

Patreon

If you want to and are able to support the Sentientism movement financially this is a great place to start. 

Join

Kialo

We have just set up a Kialo Sentientism team and there’s a Sentientism thesis you can help develop and challenge. Kialo is a great forum for structured debates and decision-making on almost any topic.

Join

Beyond Animal

Beyond Animal is building digital platforms to help accelerate the transition towards animal-free products and services across all industries worldwide.

Join

Trust Cafe

Trust Cafe was set up by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales as an alternative to Twitter and Facebook that runs no ads – being funded purely through donations.

Join

Quora

We have a Sentientism space on Quora (thanks to Bradley Dorfan!) and also a Sentientism topic. Quora’s mission is to share and grow the world’s knowledge by helping people ask and answer questions.

Join

Academia.edu

I’ve posted a series of Sentientism papers and a conference presentation here.

Join

World Community Grid

We have a Sentientist World Community Grid team you can join – using our spare compute capacity to help solve important world problems

Join

MissingMaps

On Missing Maps, HumanitarianOpenStreetMapTeam and OpenStreetMap we use the #Sentientism and #Sentientists hashtags. Helping local humanitarian (sentientarian?) teams by building open source maps from satellite imagery.

Join