Beehaw Support

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

It would be good to have a Programming topic somewhere. Something not necessarily tied to one specific language.

Perhaps a place for anime / manga?

Something for photography / general art would be nice

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

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.

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.

A reading community might be nice.

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'.

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

Oh, and how about animals? Somewhere people could post pictures of their pets and stuff?

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.

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?

Queer communities in general would be good, be they for advice, memes or sharing in general, both broad queer subs and ones specifically for a given group

As Reddit moves towards becoming public the odds of them purging queer content to become "family friendly" is quite high, so making sure there's spaces ready here would be good preparation i think

Outside of that just more hobby communities in general, from sports, to gardening to card games, any hobby that doesn't fall within the traditional perview of what tech and foss bros like, so theres something worthwhile here for non techy people

Especially as one of the appeals of reddit is that it's all too easy to pop into a subreddit for any hobby and get a basic overview of where to start and an easy place to ask for questions you can't easily find, being able to replicate that to an extent would be welcome

Linux community? It's relatively broad community that it doesn't strictly deals with Linux itself, but also various open source projects.

I am a software developer that works on Linux daily both as hobby and professionally.

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.

The type of communities I follow mostly are based around TTRPG, it would be amazing to see one growing here as well!

Horror would be great

anime might have enough of following to warrant a new community, there only seems to be one on all of lemmy.

I'd be interested to see if there's desire for a ttrpg space, or maybe tabletop gaming in general

I'd love to see something automotive related. r/cars on Reddit has nearly 5 million subs and its a great sub for automotive news, reviews, etc.

I think it's a very clever idea of you to force a small number of generic communities and then specialise later as the user base grows. Because by doing this, you are preventing the small and precious user base from fragmenting into many small, mostly dead communities. Funneling all users into a select few to ensure activity is more important for healthy growth imho.

Food and Cooking channels seem to be missing

A soccer dedicated sublemmy (i don't know if that's what it's called I'm new) would be really nice :^)

minor communities: esports, non AI art, nature pics, recipes

major communities: car/car watching, podcast, history, tales and mythology, anime

I'd be interested in a community for writing, all kinds of writing.

Maybe a "Life Advice" community. A place where people share something that helped them in life. Also allowing for requests.

Movies!

I think sports is something that will be necessary at some point. One of my few regrets about leaving the old site is my loss of the baseball community, not to mention the individual team subs as well.

I only follow baseball but tons of others follow many more than that.

Might be too specific for now, but education would be nice. I know the teachers subreddit is going to need a place to go, but it could be used for any news or discussions regarding education, people asking about colleges and universities, sharing educational resources, etc.

I'm going to guess that on Lemmy / Beehaw users can't create their own communities?

I really enjoyed many of Reddit's image subreddits: ImaginaryCityscapes, ImaginaryVillages, and so on. Also many of the "____porn" ones: waterporn, cloudporn, earthporn (although we might want an alternative to the "porn" in the sub titles.

SavedYouAClick
I like the idea of a place where people post an archived link of an article with the answer to the Click bait title in the post title. Similar to how r/savedyouaclick handles it.
For example: "Ozark Season 5 Release Date is OFFICIALLY CONFIRMED, Cast, Plot Revealed. | There will not be a season 5"

Folks, you can see if the sub you want exists across the Lemmyverse here: https://browse.feddit.de/

or/and here https://lemmy.ca/c/communitypromo

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