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.
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 ↩︎
these communities can always be found at this link (or under the “communities” button), if you weren’t aware ↩︎
memes. they’re a huge part of any social network. a dedicated place for memes would boost activity, promote community togetherness, and provide more content for other communities via cross-posting
not to mention it would attract more people - like a “come for the memes, stay for the interesting conversations” kind of thing
Yeah and having a dedicated place for them will definitely help keep everywhere else more tidy
Was going to suggest this myself, +1
Agree. In a similar vein, a humor or jokes community would be nice. Places where you go to get a laugh or have fun and not see anything serious.
a general humor/jokes/memes subreddit is one of the communities we’re going to add, probably tomorrow. it’ll be broader than just memes (and won’t be named memes) for a few reasons, but the big one is just capacity considerations at this point: hosting images here adds up fast and it’s been a problem for us before. we can mitigate some of that by asking people to host offsite, and hopefully orienting it toward humor will also encourage people to make posts that aren’t just images and cut down on some of this
It would be good to have a Programming topic somewhere. Something not necessarily tied to one specific language.
Yeah, we could post to tech, but it’s not really relevant to people who are, say, PC gamers. Would be a welcome community for sure.
this is one we’ll be adding straightforwardly tomorrow. thank you for the suggestion folks
Perhaps a place for anime / manga?
+1, like a c/weeb or something
+1
Something for photography / general art would be nice
I agree! A community for sharing pictures (and similar) would be cool to see. Such a community would likely also encourage more OC.
Yeah, I’m really going to miss /r/earthporn and /r/itookapicture :(
Almost a year ago I created my own community for nature photos at !natur@feddit.de. But since it’s on a german instance with german headlines, it’s probably not that appealing for most users here.
for now, photography and general art stuff is basically covered by /c/creative, and i’ve edited the description to make that more apparent. if it becomes an overwhelming part of the community, that’s when we’ll break it out as its own community. (also see the memes consideration above; image hosting is expensive so ideally people would host their photograph offsite and link it here)
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
@Butterbee @alyaza Urbanism would be a great addition, indeed. And fuckcars seems more like a place of venting frustration indeed. On Reddit, I subscribed to r/fuckcarsromania, where the mods actually try to create a movement and stir civic action, from reporting cars parked on the sidewalks (a rampant problem, in Bucharest, but not only) to asking authorities for more pedestrian spaces, better public transit etc.
I imagine !urbanism@beehaw.org would be a great community to discuss different ideas and stories about better urban planning and how one can make better cities overall, as well as preserving great cities.
see below, as long as people are fine with it being named citylife it should go up tomorrow
I swear half of my Reddit usage in the past few months has been NotJustBikes and FuckCars. So yeah, something like that might be nice.
see below, as long as people are fine with it being named citylife it should go up tomorrow
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)
Awesome! Thank you!
@alyaza @Butterbee seems neat enough
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!
Home improvement
I’m an industrial electrician and mostly used reddit to discuss the trade with folks on r/electricians. I realize that’s probably a bit too niche, but anything related to working on your house, general handiness, renovations, etc are all topics I enjoy discussing and others might as well.
for now i think most? or all of that can be covered by /c/DIY, which is frankly in need of some love and a userbase that kind of content would provide. failing that, Humanities or Chat are always good fallbacks for “I don’t know where this would go, immediately”
A reading community might be nice.
Focussing on books and literature? Or what do you have in mind?
Something similar to the current function of places like r/books. A place discuss books you’re reading or want to read, run reading challenges like r/fantasy’s Book BINGO, get/give recommendations, authors can post about new releases, etc
Sounds like a really good idea
this will be added tomorrow pretty straightforwardly, like with the programming suggestion above. thanks folks
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.
It is definitely a huge undertaking and need someone with some connections and a customer service mindset. I can’t take the reigns on heading up such a community at this time. But I can help out with technical requirements to support it.
I would also love to see an AMA community.
Reddit is so vast because so many people have so many niche interests, but so many other people share them. I understand Lemmy is just starting out but will really need to let people do their own thing. Also super curated expert subs are some of the best. Ask history/science even eli5 are super great reading. Also random things like hfy are brilliant
I understand Lemmy is just starting out but will really need to let people do their own thing.
luckily, this is a benefit of federation. while this specific instance doesn’t have this enabled by default, a lot of other instances do–so if you find this a deal breaker, you could register on another instance which has community creation enabled for all users and still interact with posts here as you desire. (this also goes the other way: from here you can interact with basically all of the communities on other lemmy instances, many of which are much more specific than ours)
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
Could we get a community for pet pics?
I need some r/PartyParrots here :)
Yes I need lots of cat pics
I gotta admit, the “Aww” subreddit is a source of occasional joy.
Oh, and how about animals? Somewhere people could post pictures of their pets and stuff?
Not just animals but nature in general. Been doing a bioblitz in my local area and been loving understanding everything that lives around me is really cool.
like above: we’ll be adding a Nature & Gardening section tomorrow, so you’ll be able to post stuff like this in that section
for posting pets and stuff, i think Chat would work fine. for more outdoors-y stuff though we’ll be adding a Nature & Gardening section tomorrow.
Maybe as the community grows something related to Food? A spot where people can exchange recipes, share knowledge for beginners, favorite restaurants when traveling, or even just share a pic of an awesome sandwich someone made.
Chat or Humanities should cover this type of content for now, but yeah food’s a good one that we’ll probably add in the near future since it’s kind of an unavoidable topic lol
Was gonna suggest that one too as I’m very much into discussing food online :) A few suggestions:
- Food
- FoodPorn
- Recipes
- Baking
- Breadmaking
- LowCostMeals
I don’t know how feasible it is with a relatively small user base, but I find the various ADHD subs on Reddit to be quite useful. Given how hard it is to actually speak to a professional these days, it’s nice to be able to bounce ideas off of people in the same situation.
this (some sort of general neurodivergent or mental health community) is a good idea that will probably be a part of the next wave of community creations. no ETA on that but i can’t imagine it’d be more than a few months. if we keep growing it might be a few weeks, lol. in the interim, Chat is a good place for generally bouncing ideas off of people and talking about stuff like this
Yeah, neurodivergency as a whole would work as there’s plenty of overlap.
My only concern about it is that having no actual professionals on board could be damaging to some as misinformation gets bandied about. But the existing spaces on Reddit seem to be entirely patient-led (as it were), and they get along ok.