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!

  • cduke23@beehaw.orgEnglish
    28·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • Lost_Wanderer@beehaw.orgEnglish
    26·
    1 year ago

    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.)

  • sintamo@beehaw.orgEnglish
    21·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • juniper_ghost@beehaw.orgEnglish
    17·
    1 year ago

    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?

  • pantslesswonder@beehaw.orgEnglish
    17·
    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.

  • mobyduck648@beehaw.orgEnglish
    15·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • Kwakigra@beehaw.orgEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      Maybe c/Computers including this, os, troubleshooting, and customization discussions?

    • Pigeon@beehaw.orgEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      This would be helpful especially so we could have parts and sales related posts without flooding the gaming hive. But on the other hand idk if we’re big enough for that to be an issue yet.

  • Fox@beehaw.orgEnglish
    14·
    1 year ago

    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.

    Edit: also Fixing/mending! A place for things like visible mending projects.

    • Wigglet@beehaw.orgEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I vote sustainable living with a zero waste flair option? I really really want flairs 😂

      • cnnrduncan@beehaw.orgEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I don’t think Lemmy actually supports flairs yet, if you know Rust you could have a go at adding them though!

  • Chemslayer@beehaw.orgEnglish
    14·
    1 year ago

    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

    • randomnick@beehaw.orgEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

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

      • Chemslayer@beehaw.orgEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        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

    • Lionir [he/him]@beehaw.orgMEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      I think it depends on what is meant by wholesome, are we talking like cute pics and feel-good stories? If so, I’m not sure that’s quite the role that Betterment & Praxis is going for

      • GuyDudeman@beehaw.orgEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        Then yeah, it should be a separate community then. Betterment & Praxis seems kind of like DecidingToBeBetter

    • alyaza [they/she]@beehaw.orgOPMEnglish
      4·
      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

  • Schlock@beehaw.orgEnglish
    14·
    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.