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 ↩︎

  • salaruaEnglish
    31·
    1 year ago

    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

    • bonn2@beehaw.orgEnglish
      8·
      1 year ago

      Yeah and having a dedicated place for them will definitely help keep everywhere else more tidy

    • salaruaEnglish
      8·
      1 year ago

      not to mention it would attract more people - like a “come for the memes, stay for the interesting conversations” kind of thing

      • Magusbear@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Definitely, memes were one of the biggest draws for reddit back in the day as well.

    • JackFromWisconsin@midwest.socialEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      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.

    • alyaza [they/she]@beehaw.orgOPMEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      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