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!

  •  flatbield   ( @furrowsofar@beehaw.org ) English
    16•1 year ago

    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/health@midwest.social .
    • “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/fediverse@midwest.social 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.

    •  Gaywallet (they/it)   ( @Gaywallet@beehaw.org ) English
      8•1 year ago

      I personally have been thinking about health for a long time, I work in healthcare and share a lot of articles in humanities or science depending on how technical the writing is or the scope of what’s being investigated. Having a health community would make it pretty unambiguous.

      Making sure it’s explicit these are places for greater discussion and not personal help are probably things we’ll need to do with these spaces tho