update: we’re compiling them now, new suggestions have about 4 hours to come in before i call it and lock the thread. thank you for all of your suggestions
following the defederations and given the inconvenience, it’s time for a new round of community solicitations so we can add possible ones to our survey!
to make this easier for us, please follow a few groundrules here:
- make your suggestions top level comments. do not reply to people with suggestions! they’ll probably get lost and i won’t get paged if you make them.
- try not to make your suggestions super specific, because we probably won’t do super specific ones
- try not to duplicate a suggestion once it’s already made (i know lemmy’s display isn’t great for this). while imperfect, if you like an idea please upvote it instead.
- this is not intended to be a general discussion thread, so please try to keep that to a minimum. i will prune comments as needed if i think they’re cramping the utility of this thread
additionally, we’ve already been suggested the following and those will be on the survey. i will prune any suggestion which is a duplicate of/is covered by one of these:
- anime and manga
- world news
- tabletop gaming
- vegan/vegetarian
- education
- parenting
- camping
- fitness
and for responsibility reasons we can’t really offer mental-health related communities past !neurodivergence@beehaw.org, so please don’t suggest those. thanks folks!
OutOfTheLoop would be amazing. Sometimes I just want a TLDR of a current topic.
Seconding this. It’s pretty general, and allows lots of topics to be covered.
This would be awesome, being out of the loop is half of the reason I use any community forums.
I really miss a place like MensLib. Just to be clear, that’s not Men’s Rights or any of the MRA bullshit. It’s a space for men like the feminism community where men can discuss issues, support each other, and learn without taking up space in other forums like feminism or witchesvspatriarchy.
Not that those spaces exclude men. It’s just that in order for the patriarchy to be dismantled, men have to take and active role to work on ourselves and not at the expense of women or other groups using their own spaces to support each other. Likewise, anyone would be welcome in a menslib community.
I just really miss that place to practice and encourage positive masculinity, and to rally to fight the patriarchy.
I used to lurk on that sub even though I’m not the target audience. It was so nice to see the men checking in on each other’s mental health and posting positive articles.
c/BoysSupportBoys 😎
This is a great suggestion.
A community for interesting facts like r/todayilearned.
Something I haven’t seen mentioned is an alternative to /r/BuyItForLife - I’m often looking for honest thoughts and reviews of products from real people, but it feels silly to pop into !chat and ask what bike pump or jean brand or whatever people recommend.
Yesss, if we’re going to make lemmy anywhere as useful as reddit was, it needs to have user reviews.
AskBeehaw
TodayILearned
CampingAndHiking
AntiConsumption
BuyItForLife
ZeroWaste
SimpleLiving
Sustainability
HighStrangeness (Cryptids, UFOs, Ghosts, etc. Nonsense that is fun to post)
Wicca
Podcasts
Permaculture
SelfSufficiency
ExtremeSports or OutdoorSports (Like skiing, ski diving, etc.)
Could probably combine ZeroWaste, SelfSufficiency, AntiConsumption etc. into a single community focused on sustainability, reusability, and so on.
Like a “Conscious Living” type sublem
I personally encourage you to post about permaculture in !greenspace@beehaw.org as it relates to gardening, or in !betterment@beehaw.org as it relates to community scaled projects in the meantime
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CampingAndHiking has been suggested a lot! I’m going to throw my hat in for that one because I am biased and I know a lot of people that would contribute to that community including my wife and I.
Podcasts would be great, I love chatting about those.
Definitely need a podcasts community. Would volunteer as a moderator, as I already moderate the Reddit sub :P
Second a high strangeness for all the weird stuff out there.
AskBeehaw
There have been many options already, but I’ll add:
- Internet Is Beautiful
Just a place to share small sites of the internet that you might not discover easily by yourself.
As much as I love the chat I’ve seen and had over at !entertainment@beehaw.org, I feel like we need to separate things out into discrete Movies and Television communities for increased specificity and better discussions. Right now there’s a lot of links flying around but it feels a bit front-page-of-Deadline-y mixed with some discussion posts.
Sustainability/zero-waste communities! I loved those on reddit because they were more about suggestions and practices for sustainable, low-impact living, rather than general environmental news.
I vote sustainable living with a zero waste flair option? I really really want flairs 😂
I don’t think Lemmy actually supports flairs yet, if you know Rust you could have a go at adding them though!
Travel
Language/linguistics
Careers/work
I know there’s the Creative community, but I’d enjoy if there were some more specific ones. Maybe Art (for drawing, painting, digital art), Crafts (for crochet, embroidery, etc.), and Photography?
Seconding Language/Linguistics
Technically, “linguistics” ins already in included in !humanities@beehaw.org, but I’ wouldn’t mind a community dedicated to learning languages; so far I haven’t seen one yet.
Seconding “travel”
An art community would be cool, I second this!
Yeah, Language Learning!
Shame this happened while ‘most’ of us Europeans were asleep.
maybe a community thats a focused on being positive rather than negative, news or generally content wise. like, /c/cute stuff/aww or /c/good news. just generally a space to try and take a break from the negativity, not to ignore the problems in the world but rather a break from the kind of doomscrolling that tends to happen on social media and a space to share general means of hope.
Definitely in favor of a “good news” type of community, but only if the news is actually good. r/upliftingnews turned into r/orphancrushingmachine very quickly
Think it would need to be strictly moderated to make sure something like that doesn’t happen. But I second this idea!
I quite like the idea of a BeeHawDevs community, I’m not sure if there’s a discord or something already but having a community specifically dedicated to building new features for BeeHaw would be nice I think. Since we’d all have to juggle things around jobs and stuff it would be nice if there was a centralised list of tasks/features that needed doing in order of priority that people could drop in and work on when they had a spare weekend.
In that case shouldn’t it more be a LemmyDevs community? Since building new features and improvements for Beehaw would be building them for Lemmy since that’s what Beehaw is running.
How about a crafts community? We have DIY but crafts are a bit different. It could cover stuff like sewing, crocheting, needlepoint, dying, woodburning, pottery, glassblowing, all the artsy 3D items people make.
A c/Tabletop would be nice, for boardgames/card games (Magic etc)/D&D and stuff. Right now this falls under “gaming”, but that community is heavily slanted towards video games (it even has a game controller as it’s icon). I feel tabletop games are different enough and have different enough communities irl to be worth their own space.
Edit: derp, I carefully checked every other suggestion before I posted, but missed the list at the bottom of the OP, my bad. Consider this my vote
There are discussions about boardgames and TTRPGs in Gaming, even if that community is mainly focused on videogames
True, but it is drowned out by video games overall, and theres a significant chunk of the population who loves Tabletop games and couldn’t give a care about video games. The two hobbies are separate everywhere else, would be nice to have a dedicated space here
And I agree with you. I’m one of those playing solo boardgames and RPGs to avoid more screen time
