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soliciting a new round of community suggestions (beehaw.org)
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update: we're compiling them now, new suggestions have about 4 hours to come in before i call it and lock the thread. thank you for all of your suggestions

following the defederations and given the inconvenience, it's time for a new round of community solicitations so we can add possible ones to our survey!

to make this easier for us, please follow a few groundrules here:

  1. make your suggestions top level comments. do not reply to people with suggestions! they'll probably get lost and i won't get paged if you make them.
  2. try not to make your suggestions super specific, because we probably won't do super specific ones
  3. try not to duplicate a suggestion once it's already made (i know lemmy's display isn't great for this). while imperfect, if you like an idea please upvote it instead.
  4. this is not intended to be a general discussion thread, so please try to keep that to a minimum. i will prune comments as needed if i think they're cramping the utility of this thread

additionally, we've already been suggested the following and those will be on the survey. i will prune any suggestion which is a duplicate of/is covered by one of these:

  • anime and manga
  • world news
  • tabletop gaming
  • vegan/vegetarian
  • education
  • parenting
  • camping
  • fitness

and for responsibility reasons we can't really offer mental-health related communities past !neurodivergence@beehaw.org, so please don't suggest those. thanks folks!

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[–] BobQuasit@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
  • Anticonsumerism
  • Asexuality
  • Dating
  • Google Services
  • Suggest Me A Book
[–] cnnrduncan@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wouldn't asexuality fall under the existing LGBTQIA+ community at the moment?

[–] NekoRogue@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It does, but asexual people only make up about 1.66% of sexual minorities, so they may get drowned out in a combined community. Iit might be nice for them to have their own space.

I would also like to put in a vote for demisexuality, but since that's an even smaller slice it would be pretty niche at this stage.

[–] yozul@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

Being asexual in a general LGBTQIA+ space can be kinda weird sometimes. I assume the mods don't allow blatant aphobia, but they tend to be very sex positive kinds of places, and while that is certainly a good thing, it's very common for even well meaning people go overboard and start saying that our sexual desires are what make us human or things like that. It can get uncomfortable.