I did not see a community about disability, chronic illness, long-covid, accessibility, health issues, public health, and the fight against ableism. Is there one or did I just miss it? If there is none I think it would be good to have a community that allows talking about those issues specifically.
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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.
a fitness community
Would really like to see (broadly phrased) "disability, caregiver & elder support." I'm a brand new Reddit refugee, still wrapping my head around Beehaw, Lemmy, federation.
On Reddit, I have been active on a cluster of subs which have been of great significance in my coping ability. My partner of 26 years has been dx'd with Alzheimers. It's been a wild ride.
I don't think anyone over there is even aware of the go-dark campaign, or the impending July 1 Apocalypse. We're all more focused on the IRL issues, and not the platform where we discuss these issues. At least, I don't see any mention on the subs themselves.
If and when things get rough on Reddit, there will be a number of folks wondering wtf, and feeling very frustrated if this lifeline disappears for reasons they cannot fathom. Perhaps we could invite mods to port over or start afresh on Behaw, and to invite subscribers (some of whom are not tecchy in the least) to follow. I can supply a list of reddits I'd like to see join.
Thank you for considering.
Self improvement based communities. Not something like /r/getmotivated where it's inspirational quotes and news that's actually depressing, but things like fitness communities (/r/EOOD for an example of a chill community, /r/xxfitness for a larger community) would be nice.
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
Maybe two iOS and Android communities? 🤔
Something focused of DIY would be nice, to cover woodworking, sewing, knitting, etc
Just going down on my subscribed subreddits that I frequent the most, I’d probably say:
- NBA
- SquaredCircle
- SteamDeck
- DunderMifflin
- NewParents
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'.
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.
What about Explain Like I'm Five? That was a pretty cool sub, so it should be a pretty cool community on Lemmy and beehaw.org.
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.
I forgot to add that I'd love to see something for libraries/librarians, etc.
It would be good to have a Programming topic somewhere. Something not necessarily tied to one specific language.
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
this is one we'll be adding tomorrow as long as people are fine with the community being named "citylife". we debated other names; in the end we think that one will cover the most topics of an urbanist nature while also still being clear in what it's about (particularly to people who might not know what urbanism is)
I'm not sure if it's a possibility for this instance.i haven't been able to parse whether it's a yay or nay in general. Moderating it would be tricky. But what about something of an nsfw persuasion?
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
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
for now i think just the one we have (LGBTQ+) should cover things pretty well--it's pretty lightly used overall, so there's not a big risk of everything getting lost yet. but yeah, we'll definitely break it into more focused communities with time; there's already a big contingent of queer people on the site so this might come sooner than expected.
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
generally i try to tailor what i post here to "non-tech" people, since i fall into that category myself and plenty of folks on here already cover the tech stuff better than i do. this might be a problem that's also solved just by a bigger userbase (and some of our additions tomorrow). the Gaming community for example is really picking up steam when previously there were basically no posters there, lol
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.
Woodworking please?
I'd be interested in a community for writing, all kinds of writing.
Absolutely. The main thing that keeps me from completely leaving Reddit behind is /r/HFY, /r/RedditSerials, and similar creative writing subreddits.
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I'm going to guess that on Lemmy / Beehaw users can't create their own communities?
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
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"
porn. specifically hentai please. mayhaps with a smidgen of monstergirl flavouring? (:
Movies!
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.
this one will get added tomorrow under the name Nature & Gardening, combining a few of the ideas people have in this thread. thanks!
Today I learned AskScience Card Games (magic, yugioh, pokemon) HobbyDrama Cannabis subreddit Piracy Anarchism Vexillology Movies and Moviescirclejerk Sci-fi Everyday carry Cooking
A place to look at online garbage fires and laugh
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
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