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what communities might you be interested in us adding in the near future? (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by alyaza@beehaw.org to c/support@beehaw.org

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update: we have a pretty good idea of what we'll add to start, probably tomorrow. i'm unpinning this post and beginning to reply to posts in here with specifics. thank you for your suggestions to this point

no promises on any specific additions from me or the other mods, but now is a good time to gauge this.[^1] for reference, our current 18 non-support communities are:[^2]

Chat
Creative
Do It Yourself
Entertainment
Environment
Feminism
Finance
Free and Open Source Software
Gaming
Humanities
LGBTQ+
Music
News
Politics
Science
Space
Sports
Technology

try to be a little broad in your suggestions--this is still a site of just 1,000 people, so it simply can't be as granular as reddit--but it's fine if your suggestion is a specific subset of an already existing community or overlaps with one. Space and FOSS are some obvious examples of already existing overlap, and those communities work fine.

[^1]: and even if we don't add a suggestion in the immediate term, knowing that there's interest makes it easier to do so later [^2]: these communities can always be found at this link (or under the "communities" button), if you weren't aware

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[–] Tzeentch@beehaw.org 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Queer communities in general would be good, be they for advice, memes or sharing in general, both broad queer subs and ones specifically for a given group

As Reddit moves towards becoming public the odds of them purging queer content to become "family friendly" is quite high, so making sure there's spaces ready here would be good preparation i think

Outside of that just more hobby communities in general, from sports, to gardening to card games, any hobby that doesn't fall within the traditional perview of what tech and foss bros like, so theres something worthwhile here for non techy people

Especially as one of the appeals of reddit is that it's all too easy to pop into a subreddit for any hobby and get a basic overview of where to start and an easy place to ask for questions you can't easily find, being able to replicate that to an extent would be welcome

[–] wintermute@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd love to be a part of card game and tabletop discussions :) The sidebar of the gaming community does mention it's for all forms, video, tabletop etc. In that regard, maybe we just need to be the ones to start those non-video-game conversations.

[–] Tzeentch@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

Start organising games and posting gametales till the gamers get sick enough to tell us to make a tabletop community, sounds like a plan :>

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