When you create a community on Lemmy you automatically become the mod of that community. Is that stopping you from creating one? If so, which communities would you like to see here?

  • AbsentApe@midwest.socialEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Any and all racing? Local, dirt, Nascar, dragsters, indy car, F1. I wouldn’t be opposed to being a mod but I’m not the most active or outgoing person. Not a fan of responsibility.

    Edit: A general car community would be interesting as well.

  • hrimfaxi_work@midwest.socialEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Tossing in a new comment to ask a Lemmy etiquitte/standards question about this.

    Is it expected that instances like midwest.social or beehaw or whatever generally remain on-theme? For example, r/cemeterypreservation is a sub on reddit that I like a lot. But it’s a niche general interest and region non-specific thing. Would something like that be more suitable for another instance? What’s typical around here?

    • seahorse [Ohio]@midwest.socialOPMEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      It’s kind just up to the admins of the instance. I’m personally fine with whatever as long as it follows the basic rules outlined in the sidebar.

  • I_like_cats@midwest.socialEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Indoor Plants. I really enjoy looking at other people’s plant collections, talking about plants, plant Q&A, and trading cuttings for those open to it. But I don’t think I’m cut out to be a mod.

  • Whimseymimple@midwest.socialEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    I was looking for others in the states that I have connections in, so maybe just separate ones for all the Midwest states individually? (There are a few, but not all.)

  • hrimfaxi_work@midwest.socialEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Are there communities focusing on labor news on any instance? I’m primarily interested in US-based labor stuff, but an English-language international labor community would be sick.

  • Doug [he/him]@midwest.socialEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Ask - whatever questions you have that don’t fit somewhere that already exists. Maybe it’s super niche or maybe it just doesn’t work anywhere else.

    FriendlySupport - whatever you’ve got going on there’s probably someone who can commiserate if not offer additional perspective. Everyone needs someone sometimes.

  • graphito@beehaw.orgEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    As for any region based instance I would like to see communities where people share their underappreciated travel spots and guides: from short backpack hike to family vacations

    Ps I don’t live at midwest so I can’t post there anyway but I would love to see sub like that for my own region – maybe there are people like in midwest too

  • SmokeInFog@midwest.socialEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    More focused linux communities for asking targeted questions or showing off rice, e.g. /c/debian, /c/linuxmint, /c/archlinux, /c/manjaro, etc

    • FormerGameDev@midwest.socialEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      fwiw, as long as the user count is quite low, it’s probably better to start with more general topics, and then break it down further as usership increases. just a thought/opinion on community building