Hope you don't mind me going on about this some more here. The idea I had yesterday is changing and I don't want to make another thread. Plus, I value the opinion of the people in this community more in this regard.
I think making a community for both alt and nerd stuff is too much. What I am thinking right now to get my feet wet with this is a community to post everything under the alternative umbrella, from metal to punk to indie rock etc. Thinking of even including alt pop.
I have many reasons for thinking it's necessary. One is so that for example, someone can post a Scene Queen or Poppy song somewhere without gatekeepers showing up to go on about true metal and how it was back in their day. There's some exciting things happening in newer music, especially where women are involved. The walls are coming down between metal and punk and pop and it's getting harder to put things into neat boxes. I don't even like all of it but it makes balding old men cry into their Metallica collections, which makes it some of the most relevant rebel upstart music around today. I also want a space for people to post queer and trans alt music without conservative 'alt' LARPers clutching their pearls.
There's also the fact that the one person who showed up in that thread to recommend !metal@lemmy.world was one of these anti safe spaces, "the left are evil commies" people.
And I don't want to rival !gpral@hilariouschaos.com, that seems to be more for memes and fashion. So I'm thinking just music, and maybe rants that wouldn't be allowed in the spaces that don't want things 'political'. But with rules to keep the manosphere people and anti 'woke' people out.
What I'm stuck on is a name. I need something that'll cover everything from alt pop to death metal. Is "Rebel Music" too basic? That's what I want to emphasize. That it's community for rebel alt people and not gatekeeping dick swingers. And to quote Skin from Skunk Anansie, that "yes it's fucking political".