five more new Beehaw communities!

a few of you have already noticed these and dutifully begun using them, but we have five new communities based on feedback, activity of existing communities, and our assessment of the utility of such a community.

here are our new five:

  • Neurodivergence! a complement to our existing LGBTQ+ and Feminism communities; this one is for the various communities that fall under the neurodivergent label, and all content surrounding them. we didn't quite want to commit to a mental health type community, but we think we can handle something like this.
  • Writing! a complement to our already-existing Creative and Literature sections, specifically for your long and short form writing, worldbuilding, and all things pertaining to improving the craft generally.
  • Animals and Pets! i hope this one is self explanatory, lol.
  • Food and Cooking! i hope this one is too.
  • and Operating Systems. we do have a big tech crowd here, and a lot of people have an interest in this stuff. this was originally suggested as a Linux-specific community but we decided to expand its scope a little bit for practical reasons.

these are, as i'll always note, not our final communities! as we continue to grow we'll take into consideration what's already been suggested, any new suggestions you have, and whether existing sections of a community are large enough to be split off. (we already have one good suggestion i think i will inevitably be added.)

thank you for your continued support of the website, and hopefully some of you will get a lot of use out of these new communities.

jursed,

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rakkhun,

is it possible that we could get here more niche subs like r/animesuggest or r/socialdemocracy? Or will the latter have to be discussed in general politics?

alyaza,
@alyaza@beehaw.org avatar

probably not on the first count, because the entire rest of lemmy does a good job for more granular stuff. on the second count: we're open to making more granular ideological communities but we'd want to hold off on making them until there's a clear community that wants it (or there's a good reason to split it off). our general political community isn't super active at this point, especially in the context of the rest of the site, so it's not like stuff is at the risk of being heavily buried without thought

rakkhun,

Ah. It’s always possible to make communities on other instances and interact with them through beehaw though, right?

alyaza,
@alyaza@beehaw.org avatar

i don't know if you can make them from beehaw, but if they exist already yes definitely you can interact with them through here

Brock,

I would say it would be cool to see a sub for MOBAs like LoL and DOTA but the mechanics and fundamentals of the two games are so entirely different that combining the two communities would be kind of a nightmare.

overlordror,

This is a great start! Can we also get communities for Books?

alyaza,
@alyaza@beehaw.org avatar

already have that one:! it's !literature

overlordror,

Oh joy! Still learning my way around here, thanks.

mustyOrange,

Question - how do I comment/subscribe to communities on other instances? Do I have to log in with my fediverse handle, or is there some other way?

alyaza,
@alyaza@beehaw.org avatar

if you're on desktop, if all else fails it should be possible through at least one way, which is browsing through the All feed to get where you want to go. (federation makes it possible to browse other instances through the one you're registered on, and that's also how you're able interact with them if you're not registered on them)

mustyOrange,

Perfect, thanks!

kalanggam,

Could a POC community be a possibility? I don't know if there's the moderation capacity for it, but it would be nice to have dedicated space to talk about POC experiences specifically, similar to existing communities on Reddit and the race/ethnicity-based Guppe groups in the federated microblogging sphere.

alehel,

Why doesn Jerboa understand how to open these links? They all open in a browser ☹️.

tangentism,

If possible, it would be nice to have a community dedicated to music production to separate it from /c/music.

Lucy,

Thank you!

Barbarian,

Hi all, I know I'm not from Beehaw, but I do subscribe to a lot of your communities as I like your moderation.

Any chance of a World News community? The current News community is very US-centric, and it'd be nice to have a more international spot to put news.

Gaywallet,
@Gaywallet@beehaw.org avatar

Please put international news articles into news to encourage this kind of behavior. We don't want to split things at this point (although we may need to depending on user demographics) and we don't feel it's too active to miss world news being posted there

Barbarian,

Well, gave it a shot. We'll see what happens :)

Lowbird,

Thank you! Especially for the neurodivergence one. :)

jaundice4593,

Could we get Vegan please (Vegan Memes would be nice but not a deal breaker)?

admin,
@admin@beehaw.org avatar

Things of that nature can go into /c/food.

such_lettuce7970,

Vegan isn't just about food.

I agree with @Lowbird

Lowbird,

I would also appreciate a vegan/vegetarian specific community (I'm fine if those two are combined though), because a) I dislike seeing photo after photo and recipe after recipe about meat in my feed, and while I would like discussing vegetarian and vegan recipes I don't want it enough to put up with wading through meat discussions, and for people who are actively in the process of trying to give up meat they maybe wouldn't want to be constantly reminded of it, and b) posts about animal rights have a tendency to go poorly in general food forums full of meat eaters who take our food choices as a personal attack on them or as "I'm better than you" posturing, and that gets exhausting quickly.

Maybe the latter point could end up not being an issue here, I suppose, if the community here deals with this better than reddit, but I'm wary for now at least and personally probably wouldn't risk posting.

Anyway, I'm excited to see all the new communities that have been added so far!

Icarus,

There's a vegan community on lemmy.ml, I'll try and update thks post with the link when I figure that out on mobile

thegiddystitcher,

!vegan there's a direct link :)

sirvesa,

Neurodivergence is a great addition!

Lowbird,

Seriously! Thank goodness for that one.

A couple days ago I looked up the one "adhd" community that existed (lemmy.ml iirc?) aaaaaand it was just full of bullshit adhd-deniers/anti-adhd medication rants instead of adhd people. >.<

Schedar,

Could I suggest a Parenting community? It’s something that people often need support with and would like to talk and share their experience.. but of course lots of people are really uninterested in other peoples kids! So having it as community that people could choose to follow or not (is that the right terminology? I’m new here!) might be a good idea.

ANapSoundsNice,
@ANapSoundsNice@beehaw.org avatar

Oh very much this.

I only recently discovered r/askmenover30, r/dadadvice, r/Over30Reddit and r/daddit after having been subbed to r/internetparents and r/dadforaminute for a while. It’s probably the biggest hole in my heart being left behind, middle-age parenting and lifestyle/support.

Schedar,

Never has a username resonated with me as much as yours!

ANapSoundsNice,
@ANapSoundsNice@beehaw.org avatar

haha, thanks :D

It was my mood in that present moment when I was registering an account, but it's a simple life affirming truth.

tangentism,

Theres been a lot of nostalgic talk of the internet prior to its 'corporatisation' and you reminded me of a website that I used to love that is like their username:

http://www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com

ultraHQ,

I like that you've made !operatingsystems however, there's vast differences between *nix, bsd, windows etc. beyond the obvious that may warrant separate communities, especially until flairs are added for filtering.

backseat,

I agree with this. I'd like to see a Linux (and similar) community, but I have no interest in Windows so I'll probably avoid a generic OS community.

knokelmaat,

Isn't there already a big Linux community on lemmy.ml? Or do we want a specific beehaw community for that?

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