update: we have a pretty good idea of what we’ll add to start, probably tomorrow. i’m unpinning this post and beginning to reply to posts in here with specifics. thank you for your suggestions to this point

no promises on any specific additions from me or the other mods, but now is a good time to gauge this.[1] for reference, our current 18 non-support communities are:[2]

  • Chat
  • Creative
  • Do It Yourself
  • Entertainment
  • Environment
  • Feminism
  • Finance
  • Free and Open Source Software
  • Gaming
  • Humanities
  • LGBTQ+
  • Music
  • News
  • Politics
  • Science
  • Space
  • Sports
  • Technology

try to be a little broad in your suggestions–this is still a site of just 1,000 people, so it simply can’t be as granular as reddit–but it’s fine if your suggestion is a specific subset of an already existing community or overlaps with one. Space and FOSS are some obvious examples of already existing overlap, and those communities work fine.

  1. and even if we don’t add a suggestion in the immediate term, knowing that there’s interest makes it easier to do so later ↩︎

  2. these communities can always be found at this link (or under the “communities” button), if you weren’t aware ↩︎

  •  Tzeentch   ( @Tzeentch@beehaw.org ) English
    12•11 months ago

    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

    •  alyaza [they/she]   ( @alyaza@beehaw.org ) OPEnglish
      5•11 months ago

      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

    •  wintermute   ( @wintermute@beehaw.org ) English
      5•11 months ago

      I’d love to be a part of card game and tabletop discussions :) The sidebar of the gaming community does mention it’s for all forms, video, tabletop etc. In that regard, maybe we just need to be the ones to start those non-video-game conversations.