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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    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.

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    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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    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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    As much as I love the chat I’ve seen and had over at [email protected], 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.

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    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.

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    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.

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      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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        Think it would need to be strictly moderated to make sure something like that doesn’t happen. But I second this idea!

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    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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    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.

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    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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      There are discussions about boardgames and TTRPGs in Gaming, even if that community is mainly focused on videogames

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        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

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          And I agree with you. I’m one of those playing solo boardgames and RPGs to avoid more screen time

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    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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      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.

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    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.