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.

  • Schedar@beehaw.orgEnglish
    20·
    1 year ago

    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@beehaw.orgEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      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.

    • Lionir [he/him]@beehaw.orgMEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I think it’s certainly an interesting idea, I worry about bad advice or stories about abuse that might be hard to moderate though.

      • Schedar@beehaw.orgEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        That’s a fair concern, but hopefully with the Beehaw “be kind” ethos we’ll see positive engagement. Plus really anyone can give bad advise or bad stories in any community, that’s not limited to parenting.

    • Pigeon@beehaw.orgEnglish
      9·
      1 year ago

      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. >.<

  • ultraHQ@beehaw.orgEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • fishy 2.0 (he/him)@beehaw.orgEnglish
      21·
      1 year ago

      perhaps in the future but from talk in the discord the admins dont want too many comunities to avoid fragmentation if operating systems ever gets too big and there is a need to seperate it more then it will be done

    • backseat@beehaw.orgEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      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.

  • Barbarian@lemmy.reckless.devEnglish
    10·
    1 year ago

    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 (they/it)@beehaw.orgMEnglish
      10·
      1 year ago

      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@lemmy.reckless.devEnglish
        8·
        1 year ago

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

        EDIT: Seems to be performing about average, comparing it to other posts on the community. Ok, point retracted. Just need more people putting stuff in from outside the US. Maybe I’m just still stuck in the Reddit “News means US news” mindset and need to break out of it.

      • Pigeon@beehaw.orgEnglish
        14·
        1 year ago

        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!

  • Gil (he/they)@beehaw.orgEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    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.