soliciting a new round of community suggestions

OutOfTheLoop would be amazing. Sometimes I just want a TLDR of a current topic.

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.

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.

A community for interesting facts like r/todayilearned.

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.

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.)

There have been many options already, but I'll add:

• Internet Is Beautiful

Just a place to share small sites of the internet that you might not discover easily by yourself.

Shame this happened while 'most' of us Europeans were asleep.

How about a crafts community? We have DIY but crafts are a bit different. It could cover stuff like sewing, crocheting, needlepoint, dying, woodburning, pottery, glassblowing, all the artsy 3D items people make.

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?

maybe a community thats a focused on being positive rather than negative, news or generally content wise. like, /c/cute stuff/aww or /c/good news. just generally a space to try and take a break from the negativity, not to ignore the problems in the world but rather a break from the kind of doomscrolling that tends to happen on social media and a space to share general means of hope.

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

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.

AskBeehaw

/c/SuggestACommunity or /c/CommunityWish or /c/LookingForCommuntiy or /c/WhereIsMyCommunity

People can go post when they are in the mood of wanting a community that doesn't exist. Others can comment on it. If a big group of people are talking about a certain thing it might be more viable. Or, you might find out that there is a community like the one you are looking for already.

Also people can make more in depth threads like about what kind of vibe/guidelines they are thinking of and have discussion about what others would like to participate in.

It would serve as a record of what people have wanted. Would be useful both to show interest over time but also to think about communities that might have significant conflicts in expectations.

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.

Having something for IT professionals would be huge. There’s a big difference in professional tech and everyday technology. It’s a wide range of topics, but networking, server administration, security, device management, Helpdesk, and IT management can all be summed up together inside professional IT. It would be a good place to ask for help, get ideas, and catch up on the latest news and trends.

Some kind of Horror sub (for all things horror film/game related, paranormal stuff?)

Sobriety.

I personally would like a game development subr- community, but it might be too niche to bother with. I know we have a c/programming, but that's for people a lot smarter than me, my game dev process is more of a "alls i have is a hammer and therefore everything is nails" type of deal and I personally find that most of the self taught indie devs are kinda on my wavelength.

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.

Home networking or self hosted.

Podcasts.

WitchesVsPatriarchy?

What about a series of local communities? Back on Reddit, I enjoyed participating in a subreddit for my local area. I don't think Lemmy is quite there just yet (but hopefully one day will have enough users to support such localized communities), so how about a series of US State communities? Depending on intentional presence, this could be expanded into equivalent regions for other countries as well.

c/philosophy

I'm late to the party but one of my favorite places on Reddit was MomForAMinute, where people could stop by and share their news or vent or talk about whatever they need to and get internet Mom Hugs. It was such a wholesome place.

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:

• https://beehaw.org/c/securitynews@infosec.pub
• https://beehaw.org/c/privacyguides@lemmy.one

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.

Haven't seen a lesbian specific community here that isn't just porn. r/ActualLesbians had it's issues, but it more or less worked.

NoStupidQuestions

I would love to see a birds or birding community.

Could we have something specifically for Apple people?

My only suggestion is to be mindful of growing too fast. I would focus on more general interest communities at this point. Better to have a few highly active groups then hundreds of dead ones.

Mushroomgrowers/mycology (there's mycology@mander.xyz, but it'd be nice to have one focused on growing)

Pseudoscience/skeptics (for discussions scientific skepticism, the skeptic community, and shows like SGU, ONWRAC, etc.)

Whatsthisplant/whatsthisbug/etc. (For identification purposes)

myog (for diy outdoors gear)

Startups/indiehackers (for those wanting to start small, self-sustained businesses)

I've seen a few suggestions of witchy stuff, paganism, or witches vs patriarchy. So maybe just a "New Age" community that deals with paganism, wiccan, astrology, crystals, etc.

Doesn't have to be called that exactly, but I think it would be better to group that rather than a plethora of smaller communities with less traffic?

• Anticonsumerism
• Asexuality
• Dating
• Google Services
• Suggest Me A Book

NoStupidQuestions

BuyItForLife

EDC

TodayILearned

Fantasy/Sci-Fi

Retro/decades which would include posts, pictures and nostalgia from the eras we grew up in to recall/remind us of those special times that meant something to us.

PCBuilding

• Witchcraft and/or Paganism - Absolutely needs representation. Maybe to make it more general and allow for other religions as well it could be called "Spirituality"?
• Keto
• Stitchcraft/Needlecraft as a subboard of Creative.

Thank you for considering suggestions!

AMA

I really enjoyed the NoLawns group, and didn't see it suggested. Also, Travel was a great group to share pictures and travel tips, as well as ask questions.

• news from anything but the usa, that's sorely needed.
• a general photography community, both for discussion and showing pictures off.
• something along the lines of /r/mealtimevideos.

I'd really like Entertainment to have subcommunities for Movies, TV, and Streaming.

Given beehaw’s focus on building safe spaces and supportive communities, a community for people in addiction recovery might be a good addition.

Some of those subs in Reddit were / are pretty big, have helped a lot of people, and have saved a lot of lives.

An equivalent of r/ifyoulikeblank (suggestions based on things you already like), and/or r/tipofmytongue (for trying to find things you've forgotten the name of)

I’d love a community related to making clothes :)

Basically r/sewing and r/historicalcostuming, but it could also include stuff like shoemaking, knitting, altering clothes, thrift flipping, hat making, vintage clothes, maybe also cosplays.

This is currently all in the creative community here but that one is a little too broad to my taste.

a witchcraft community would be amazing!! i haven’t yet found a good one across the federated internet and i have found the communities across various witchcraft niches are all very kind. ❤️

NFL/Fantasy Football! That's what will draw me back to reddit right now

I'd like to see beer and cocktail focused communities. Sharing reviews, recipes etc. Maybe just a general drinking culture sub for now until we get big enough to support multiple communities.

On that note maybe a marijuana community for those of us where it's legal who might want to discuss growing, different strains, etc.

Also climate news/activism.

Mathematics please. Unless that is covered under education.

Apologies if some already exist, I haven't thoroughly looked at at the whole list.

Personalfinance
Audiobooks
PCHelp
Bikecommuting
Hiking
Drones
Electricvehicles
Eyebleach[l
Kdrama

LeopardsAteMyFace

Atheism

Anti-work

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Comics, maybe? Like webcomics and comic strips.

Or U.S. comics ala Marvel & DC, etc - maybe just mix those in with anime/manga for now? Or mix them in with webcomics?

Migraines. Reddit's community was highly active, supportive, and informative. Perhaps too narrow, but an estimated 15% of people are affected which makes the target audience fairly broad. Never saw toxicity in that community so it would probably be an easy one to moderate. No current migraine community on the fediverse.

Japan/Japanese culture without anime/manga clutter would be nice.

What about Digital Art as subcommunity for Creative like Writing?

For painting of all things, 3d and so on

How about one for musicians to share their song covers? Some enterprising user made a similar community on another instance and it would be SO MUCH COOLER on beehaw.

Baking or cooking in general?

Already see parenting on there. 😁 Us parents thank you.

I'd love one for Crafting, but understand if you feel this is too under "creative" to qualify.

I feel like the creative umbrella covers so much that isn't necessarily what people are making and I'd love to see everyone's personal crafts: knitting, crochet, embroidery, cross stitch, 3D origami, sewing projects in one place.

I would love a proper Miniature Painting community. there is one at lemmy.world, but only has 13 users

3DPrinting

Permaculture - might just go in Nature and Gardening, but does have a lot of unique related content.

Skincare

Backyard Chickens 🐥🐓🐔

I’m missing cozyplaces and somewhere to gossip about Dragrace

A Music Production specific community.

We need more meme channels. What about c/ShittyFoodPorn?

c/mobility

c/cargobikes

Some community suggestions from Reddit that I loved to browse would be amazing if there are communities of them on here at Beehaw:

• c/programming
• c/programminghumor
• c/learnmachinelearning
• c/AIresearch - discussion of new and upcoming AI/ML papers
• c/CScareerQuestions

Something like /r/Earthporn?

Anything witchcraft related, if possible.

A community about music production would be cool! I feel like the current music community is mostly about listening to music or making recommendations, it'd be cool to have one that's dedicated to production.

Physical media? (For collectors of film, game vinyl, etc)

The one I couldn't find mentioned here would be /c/digitalminimalism. Here we could share tips and experiences on reducing screen time, using dumbphones, exploring minimal apps, and all things related to simplifying our digital lives.

Something for amateur music producers to share work in, get feedback, kudos, whatevs.

There were some communities on Reddit that I quickly gave up on because they were either dead, or full of jerks.

c/videos

3D Printing Motorcycles Firearms Television Flashlights Movies

Bushcrafting

financialindependence

Wholesome (unless Betterment and Praxis covers that?)

Thank you for doing this! A few suggestions I haven't seen or couldn't find, at least, are below.

• Spanish / Español <br>
• AskWomen / AskWomenOver30 <br>
• Wilderness Backpacking <br>
• Medicine <br>
• Cooking <br>

A lot of good suggestions here. I miss /r/Formula1, but that’s probably too niche for Beehaw at this point. That got me thinking along the lines of “motorsports,” with would be nice and broad. A wildcard option is “livesports” where people can discuss, well, sports that are live. Live threads when watching live sports are fun.

Windows OS

And/or

Mac OS

To match all the Linux communities?

The windows discussions on reddit were always really helpful.

Or maybe just Tech Support.

Or an even more general "Advice and Help" or "Troubleshooting" hive, for any kind of troubleshooting.

Running! The Reddit running community was helpful and very active and now they've shut down entirely

@alyaza An equivalent to:

r/FakeHistoryPorn
r/Steam
r/StupidFood
r/GameDeals
r/HardwareGore
r/SoftwareGore

VFX (As in Visual Effects).

Aquariums? (Fishkeeping, aquascaping & plants, ponds, questions and discussions etc).

A documentaries would be great

An equivalent for r/contagiouslaughter, and similar. That kind of humor specifically, or funny videos, vs the simpler meme and knock knock jokes kind that can crop up in jokes & humor?

The redditlist seems to be offline - taking part in the protest, I guess. So, looking at a recent archived version, we could always make sure we've duplicated the biggest subs, for a start. WorldNews definitely fits that bill.

Looking at what had the most subscribers in 2014 it doesn't look like things have changed much - gaming, news, funny, videos, science. News for nerds. Most all of those have been covered here, but I think it would be prudent to cover all the bases.

Also, are we going to have local communities? Jeez, "communities" is a lot of typing. Subs is 5 characters. Local "comms"? Sounds like a Hawkwind song...

Something like Tinkering or Skillshare for hobbies that have a pretty large degree of trial and error where asking questions for help with them may be useful such as 3D Printing, raspberry pi, Arduino, etc.