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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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[–] salarua@sopuli.xyz 32 points 2 years ago (5 children)

memes. they're a huge part of any social network. a dedicated place for memes would boost activity, promote community togetherness, and provide more content for other communities via cross-posting

[–] salarua@sopuli.xyz 8 points 2 years ago

not to mention it would attract more people - like a "come for the memes, stay for the interesting conversations" kind of thing

[–] bonn2@beehaw.org 7 points 2 years ago

Yeah and having a dedicated place for them will definitely help keep everywhere else more tidy

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[–] glad_cat9187@beehaw.org 25 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It would be good to have a Programming topic somewhere. Something not necessarily tied to one specific language.

[–] strudel6242@beehaw.org 7 points 2 years ago

Yeah, we could post to tech, but it’s not really relevant to people who are, say, PC gamers. Would be a welcome community for sure.

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[–] strudel6242@beehaw.org 21 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Perhaps a place for anime / manga?

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[–] Butterbee@beehaw.org 20 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Urbanism if there's enough interest please! Somewhere to talk about urbanist issues like cycling, transit, housing, and close to home stuff. There's politics, but but discussing what you saw on the bike path might not fit. There's technology which fits for things like ebikes and using speed cameras to keep stoplights red unless a car is doing the speed limit or less, but that may not fit into other spaces. Humanities would work for things like transit programs, housing programs, etc..

So an urbanist community could encompass all of those things that would be split among different forums in one place. And hopefully be a little less abrasive than fuckcars :P

[–] petrescatraian@libranet.de 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@Butterbee @alyaza Urbanism would be a great addition, indeed. And fuckcars seems more like a place of venting frustration indeed. On Reddit, I subscribed to r/fuckcarsromania, where the mods actually try to create a movement and stir civic action, from reporting cars parked on the sidewalks (a rampant problem, in Bucharest, but not only) to asking authorities for more pedestrian spaces, better public transit etc.

I imagine !urbanism@beehaw.org would be a great community to discuss different ideas and stories about better urban planning and how one can make better cities overall, as well as preserving great cities.

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[–] DJDarren@beehaw.org 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I swear half of my Reddit usage in the past few months has been NotJustBikes and FuckCars. So yeah, something like that might be nice.

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[–] bonn2@beehaw.org 20 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

Something for photography / general art would be nice

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[–] leetnewb@beehaw.org 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Gardening

Edit: Just adding a little context. Reddit has ~5.5M subscribers to the gardening sub and there are many active forum communities. It is growing season in much of the U.S. today, but gardening is a pretty universal hobby / skill.

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[–] octobob@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Home improvement

I'm an industrial electrician and mostly used reddit to discuss the trade with folks on r/electricians. I realize that's probably a bit too niche, but anything related to working on your house, general handiness, renovations, etc are all topics I enjoy discussing and others might as well.

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[–] JaymesRS@midwest.social 16 points 2 years ago (5 children)

A reading community might be nice.

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[–] Penguincoder@beehaw.org 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

A big aspect of what helped Reddit gain notice and popularity was 'Ask me Anything' subreddit (r/IAMA). Described as a new kind of crowdsourced interview, you would have an OP/Participant that has some claim to fame/following come in and answer questions from regular users about 'whatever'.

[–] Gaywallet@beehaw.org 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I love this idea, but it requires quite a bit of overhead and recruiting to gain popularity. I'm not sure we're large enough to acquire anyone particularly notable but I'm intrigued by the idea. Are you or anyone else willing to volunteer to help make a place like this work? I'm more than happy to chip in where I can, but this seems like quite the potential undertaking.

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[–] pretzel@beehaw.org 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Reddit is so vast because so many people have so many niche interests, but so many other people share them. I understand Lemmy is just starting out but will really need to let people do their own thing. Also super curated expert subs are some of the best. Ask history/science even eli5 are super great reading. Also random things like hfy are brilliant

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[–] kessleragain@beehaw.org 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Maybe as the community grows something related to Food? A spot where people can exchange recipes, share knowledge for beginners, favorite restaurants when traveling, or even just share a pic of an awesome sandwich someone made.

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[–] JustLookWhoItIs@beehaw.org 13 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Oh, and how about animals? Somewhere people could post pictures of their pets and stuff?

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[–] DJDarren@beehaw.org 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I don't know how feasible it is with a relatively small user base, but I find the various ADHD subs on Reddit to be quite useful. Given how hard it is to actually speak to a professional these days, it's nice to be able to bounce ideas off of people in the same situation.

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[–] balerion@beehaw.org 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Could we get a community for pet pics?

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[–] SemioticStandard@beehaw.org 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)
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[–] Tzeentch@beehaw.org 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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

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[–] okiegirl22@beehaw.org 11 points 2 years ago (4 children)

A books/literature community would be great!

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[–] scevola44@beehaw.org 11 points 2 years ago

The type of communities I follow mostly are based around TTRPG, it would be amazing to see one growing here as well!

[–] wintrparkgrl@beehaw.org 11 points 2 years ago

anime might have enough of following to warrant a new community, there only seems to be one on all of lemmy.

[–] pretzel@beehaw.org 11 points 2 years ago

Parenting! Have a baby and a pre-schooler and find it good to vent/understand strategies to deal with the critter's and my relationship to their other parent

[–] TheTrueLinuxDev@beehaw.org 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Linux community? It's relatively broad community that it doesn't strictly deals with Linux itself, but also various open source projects.

I am a software developer that works on Linux daily both as hobby and professionally.

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[–] The_Hunted_One@beehaw.org 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'd be interested to see if there's desire for a ttrpg space, or maybe tabletop gaming in general

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[–] Clegko@beehaw.org 9 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I'd love to see something automotive related. r/cars on Reddit has nearly 5 million subs and its a great sub for automotive news, reviews, etc.

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[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think it's a very clever idea of you to force a small number of generic communities and then specialise later as the user base grows. Because by doing this, you are preventing the small and precious user base from fragmenting into many small, mostly dead communities. Funneling all users into a select few to ensure activity is more important for healthy growth imho.

[–] ericjmorey@beehaw.org 8 points 2 years ago

Food and Cooking channels seem to be missing

[–] darylsun@beehaw.org 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I'd be interested in a community for writing, all kinds of writing.

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[–] pleasemakesense@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

A soccer dedicated sublemmy (i don't know if that's what it's called I'm new) would be really nice :^)

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[–] millionsofplayers@beehaw.org 8 points 2 years ago
[–] shufflerofrocks@beehaw.org 8 points 2 years ago

Maybe a "Life Advice" community. A place where people share something that helped them in life. Also allowing for requests.

[–] IntheTreetop@beehaw.org 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I think sports is something that will be necessary at some point. One of my few regrets about leaving the old site is my loss of the baseball community, not to mention the individual team subs as well.

I only follow baseball but tons of others follow many more than that.

[–] floppyslapper@beehaw.org 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm going to guess that on Lemmy / Beehaw users can't create their own communities?

[–] alyaza@beehaw.org 10 points 2 years ago

on Beehaw: they cannot

on Lemmy as a whole: many instances let you do so, as it's a toggle-able feature. the good thing about federation is that if this is a dealbreaker and you want to be able to do this, you can just register on another instance and take advantage of that while still seeing posts on Beehaw and interacting with them

[–] JustLookWhoItIs@beehaw.org 7 points 2 years ago

Might be too specific for now, but education would be nice. I know the teachers subreddit is going to need a place to go, but it could be used for any news or discussions regarding education, people asking about colleges and universities, sharing educational resources, etc.

[–] armada_dillo@beehaw.org 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

minor communities: esports, non AI art, nature pics, recipes

major communities: car/car watching, podcast, history, tales and mythology, anime

[–] camelia@lemmy.perthchat.org 6 points 2 years ago

Folks, you can see if the sub you want exists across the Lemmyverse here: https://browse.feddit.de/

or/and here https://lemmy.ca/c/communitypromo

[–] YouNaughtyMonsters@beehaw.org 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I really enjoyed many of Reddit's image subreddits: ImaginaryCityscapes, ImaginaryVillages, and so on. Also many of the "____porn" ones: waterporn, cloudporn, earthporn (although we might want an alternative to the "porn" in the sub titles.

[–] SolarSailer@beehaw.org 6 points 2 years ago

SavedYouAClick
I like the idea of a place where people post an archived link of an article with the answer to the Click bait title in the post title. Similar to how r/savedyouaclick handles it.
For example: "Ozark Season 5 Release Date is OFFICIALLY CONFIRMED, Cast, Plot Revealed. | There will not be a season 5"

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