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what communities might you be interested in us adding in the near future? (self.support)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by alyaza to c/support

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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

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[–] Gork 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are all communities going to have straightforward names? I liked the part of Reddit meta culture where subreddits swapped roles, like /r/trees and /r/marijuanaenthusiasts, or /r/worldpolitics and/r/anime_titties. It was like a massive community in-joke and it was fun when new users found out what the sub was really all about, like /r/onlyfans or /r/superbowl

[–] alyaza 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are all communities going to have straightforward names?

probably yeah. we can't rename them or move them at all, so if we committed to a bit that'd have to be the bit forever; and to replace a community we'd either have to move everyone over or destroy it and restart. obviously, none of those are desirable from a community perspective--and at least personally i don't think any of the Reddit jokes of that sort were funny enough to justify how annoying it'd be on here

[–] Gork 4 points 1 year ago

Fair point. I'm a sucker for organic humor, dadjokes, and memes, which drew me to Reddit in the first place. But humor can be found in any community, including here. Well, most communities. There were a few stuck-up subs that I shan't name but were super toxic. Definitely want to avoid promoting that sort of culture on here.