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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 [email protected], so please don't suggest those. thanks folks!

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[–] [email protected] 7 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/[email protected] .
  • "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/[email protected] 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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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I really enjoyed the NoLawns group, and didn't see it suggested. Also, Travel was a great group to share pictures and travel tips, as well as ask questions.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

The one I couldn't find mentioned here would be /c/digitalminimalism. Here we could share tips and experiences on reducing screen time, using dumbphones, exploring minimal apps, and all things related to simplifying our digital lives.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Comics, maybe? Like webcomics and comic strips.

Or U.S. comics ala Marvel & DC, etc - maybe just mix those in with anime/manga for now? Or mix them in with webcomics?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Given beehaw’s focus on building safe spaces and supportive communities, a community for people in addiction recovery might be a good addition.

Some of those subs in Reddit were / are pretty big, have helped a lot of people, and have saved a lot of lives.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Adding on a bit more. There is a particular need for safe secular recovery spaces. Spaces that will welcome people of all faiths and none.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

LeopardsAteMyFace

Atheism

Anti-work

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What about Digital Art as subcommunity for Creative like Writing?

For painting of all things, 3d and so on

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I would like this too, I think it would be nice to have some art communities that are just for artists to help each other improve skills and some for showing off finished art to everybody. Unless I just haven't found it, I haven't seen a whole lot of art on Lemmy yet.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Japan/Japanese culture without anime/manga clutter would be nice.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

NFL/Fantasy Football! That's what will draw me back to reddit right now

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

I've seen a few suggestions of witchy stuff, paganism, or witches vs patriarchy. So maybe just a ~~"New Age"~~ "Spirituality" community that deals with paganism, wiccan, astrology, crystals, etc.

Doesn't have to be called that exactly, but I think it would be better to group that rather than a plethora of smaller communities with less traffic?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I'd like to see beer and cocktail focused communities. Sharing reviews, recipes etc. Maybe just a general drinking culture sub for now until we get big enough to support multiple communities.

On that note maybe a marijuana community for those of us where it's legal who might want to discuss growing, different strains, etc.

Also climate news/activism.

[–] [email protected] 4 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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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Mathematics please. Unless that is covered under education.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Migraines. Reddit's community was highly active, supportive, and informative. Perhaps too narrow, but an estimated 15% of people are affected which makes the target audience fairly broad. Never saw toxicity in that community so it would probably be an easy one to moderate. No current migraine community on the fediverse.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Here's one I just ran into - If I make a community on another instance and want to share it here, how to I make sure the link takes people to that community? I've run into this, but another user pointed out that nothing shows until the users instance already knows about the community (link example: https://beehaw.org/c/support, and comparison example: https://reddthat.com/c/songcovers). The first link should send people here, while the second probably results in a 404 for most people atm. So the suggestion is...figure out a way to not make that happen? IDK if that's a thing or not. Sorry if this is bad.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Given how many posts about Reddit have not been on the threads set up for them, a Reddit-specific community to post in might be worth considering. Though I don't know for how long that'll remain an issue, and it could devolve into navel-gazing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Running! The Reddit running community was helpful and very active and now they've shut down entirely

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

A documentaries would be great

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Something for amateur music producers to share work in, get feedback, kudos, whatevs.

There were some communities on Reddit that I quickly gave up on because they were either dead, or full of jerks.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A community about music production would be cool! I feel like the current music community is mostly about listening to music or making recommendations, it'd be cool to have one that's dedicated to production.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m missing cozyplaces and somewhere to gossip about Dragrace

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

a witchcraft community would be amazing!! i haven’t yet found a good one across the federated internet and i have found the communities across various witchcraft niches are all very kind. ❤️

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would love a proper Miniature Painting community. there is one at lemmy.world, but only has 13 users

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