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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:

  1. 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.
  2. try not to make your suggestions super specific, because we probably won't do super specific ones
  3. 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.
  4. 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!

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[–] SaintPaul@beehaw.org 70 points 1 year ago (2 children)

OutOfTheLoop would be amazing. Sometimes I just want a TLDR of a current topic.

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[–] cduke23@beehaw.org 58 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] ZenGrammy@beehaw.org 17 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] DaughterOfMars@beehaw.org 11 points 1 year ago

c/BoysSupportBoys 😎

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[–] CDN@beehaw.org 42 points 1 year ago

A community for interesting facts like r/todayilearned.

[–] Sintamo@beehaw.org 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] Lost_Wanderer@beehaw.org 34 points 1 year ago (8 children)

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.)

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[–] pantslesswonder@beehaw.org 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] GuyDudeman@beehaw.org 26 points 1 year ago
[–] Whar@beehaw.org 24 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] themobyone@beehaw.org 24 points 1 year ago

Shame this happened while 'most' of us Europeans were asleep.

[–] Chemslayer@beehaw.org 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

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

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[–] PelicanPersuader@beehaw.org 21 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] gabuwu@beehaw.org 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] leachim6@beehaw.org 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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[–] foxtrots@beehaw.org 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] DaughterOfMars@beehaw.org 19 points 1 year ago (5 children)
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[–] mobyduck648@beehaw.org 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] juniper_ghost@beehaw.org 19 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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?

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[–] GuyDudeman@beehaw.org 18 points 1 year ago

NoStupidQuestions

[–] crank@beehaw.org 18 points 1 year ago

/c/SuggestACommunity or /c/CommunityWish or /c/LookingForCommuntiy or /c/WhereIsMyCommunity

People can go post when they are in the mood of wanting a community that doesn't exist. Others can comment on it. If a big group of people are talking about a certain thing it might be more viable. Or, you might find out that there is a community like the one you are looking for already.

Also people can make more in depth threads like about what kind of vibe/guidelines they are thinking of and have discussion about what others would like to participate in.

It would serve as a record of what people have wanted. Would be useful both to show interest over time but also to think about communities that might have significant conflicts in expectations.

[–] Schlock@beehaw.org 18 points 1 year ago

r/ifyoulikeblank always was cool. Basically suggestions of cool things that are similar to someting you promt because you already enjoy it. Does not matter what it is music, films, games, websites, weird shit, everything goes.

[–] Shaggy959500@beehaw.org 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Having something for IT professionals would be huge. There’s a big difference in professional tech and everyday technology. It’s a wide range of topics, but networking, server administration, security, device management, Helpdesk, and IT management can all be summed up together inside professional IT. It would be a good place to ask for help, get ideas, and catch up on the latest news and trends.

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[–] storksforlegs@beehaw.org 16 points 1 year ago

Some kind of Horror sub (for all things horror film/game related, paranormal stuff?)

[–] effingnerd@beehaw.org 14 points 1 year ago
[–] HeapOfDogs@beehaw.org 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My only suggestion is to be mindful of growing too fast. I would focus on more general interest communities at this point. Better to have a few highly active groups then hundreds of dead ones.

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[–] Los@beehaw.org 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] GraceGH@beehaw.org 14 points 1 year ago

I personally would like a game development subr- community, but it might be too niche to bother with. I know we have a c/programming, but that's for people a lot smarter than me, my game dev process is more of a "alls i have is a hammer and therefore everything is nails" type of deal and I personally find that most of the self taught indie devs are kinda on my wavelength.

[–] TechyDad@beehaw.org 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What about a series of local communities? Back on Reddit, I enjoyed participating in a subreddit for my local area. I don't think Lemmy is quite there just yet (but hopefully one day will have enough users to support such localized communities), so how about a series of US State communities? Depending on intentional presence, this could be expanded into equivalent regions for other countries as well.

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[–] mustyOrange@beehaw.org 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] dcormier@beehaw.org 12 points 1 year ago
[–] ZenGrammy@beehaw.org 12 points 1 year ago

I'm late to the party but one of my favorite places on Reddit was MomForAMinute, where people could stop by and share their news or vent or talk about whatever they need to and get internet Mom Hugs. It was such a wholesome place.

[–] GuyDudeman@beehaw.org 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Wholesome (unless Betterment and Praxis covers that?)

[–] alyaza@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

oh, a word on ambiguous ideas/ideas that might be covered by another section: you can just shoot from the hip here and we'll try and parse out what to do about that since we have to create the communities anyways

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[–] misguidedfunk@beehaw.org 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Home networking or self hosted.

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[–] OmnipotentEntity@beehaw.org 11 points 1 year ago

Mathematics please. Unless that is covered under education.

[–] BobQuasit@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago (5 children)
  • Anticonsumerism
  • Asexuality
  • Dating
  • Google Services
  • Suggest Me A Book
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[–] annenas@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I’d love a community related to making clothes :)

Basically r/sewing and r/historicalcostuming, but it could also include stuff like shoemaking, knitting, altering clothes, thrift flipping, hat making, vintage clothes, maybe also cosplays.

This is currently all in the creative community here but that one is a little too broad to my taste.

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[–] dcormier@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago

I would love to see a birds or birding community.

[–] moeris@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Mushroomgrowers/mycology (there's mycology@mander.xyz, but it'd be nice to have one focused on growing)

Pseudoscience/skeptics (for discussions scientific skepticism, the skeptic community, and shows like SGU, ONWRAC, etc.)

Whatsthisplant/whatsthisbug/etc. (For identification purposes)

myog (for diy outdoors gear)

[–] furrowsofar@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As general feedback I mostly like the less is more until posting volume on the more general categories you have gets too big. That said the feedback I have is as follows.

  • First "World News" in the list above is the big missing thing.
  • "Health" and "Legal" is pretty weak on the whole fediverse. There may be legal reasons for this but there you have it. I did sign up for https://beehaw.org/c/health@midwest.social .
  • "Travel" is missing, and it is also not common on the fediverse either unless I missed something.
  • "Fidiverse" is a common topic you see people asking about. Currently I guess this goes under "Chat" and "Support" now. Also I signed up for https://beehaw.org/c/fediverse@midwest.social which seems nice. Maybe that is fine or maybe we should have this topic. I do not know.

The area that is a bit odd is the IT area. We have just "Operating Systems", "Free and Open Source Software" and "Programming". It is not clear where you'd ask anything else. For example:

  • "Tech Support"
  • "Hardware". Like Phones, Printers, you name it.
  • "Networking and Telecom".
  • "Privacy and Security".

I do not know what the topics should be, but the ones you have are strangely specific when the rest of the site uses nice general topics. Maybe there should be some quality thinking here.

For those that care, the two privacy and security communities I found were:

The other thing I would say is that we probably do not need to have every sort of community. That is the whole point of the Fediverse. So if there is a good Fediverse alternative why add it unless we have a very good reason. Might be good to have a guide of where to find the omitted communities too. Might be even better if Lemmy software itself had a "link" capability in "Communities" so every Lemmy site did not need to add every sort of Community.

Anyway my probably too long and detailed feedback. Generally I think less is more and let us all use the Fediverse where we can.

If you got this far thanks for humoring me. Also thank you all for this site, and for joining this site.

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[–] wxboss@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Retro/decades which would include posts, pictures and nostalgia from the eras we grew up in to recall/remind us of those special times that meant something to us.

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[–] DykoPunk@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago

Haven't seen a lesbian specific community here that isn't just porn. r/ActualLesbians had it's issues, but it more or less worked.

Could we have something specifically for Apple people?

Fantasy/Sci-Fi

[–] GuyDudeman@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago
[–] kodoku@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
  • news from anything but the usa, that's sorely needed.
  • a general photography community, both for discussion and showing pictures off.
  • something along the lines of /r/mealtimevideos.
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