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Relaxed section for discussion and debate that doesn't fit anywhere else. Whether it's advice, how your week is going, a link that's at the back of your mind, or something like that, it can likely go here.


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For me it's been communities like /r/buildapc, /r/buildapcforme, /r/buildapcsales, /r/gamedeals, and /r/consoledeals have been useful throughout the years.

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[–] fish@beehaw.org 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For me, the real magic of Reddit was in hyperspecific niche communities full of hobbyist experts -- or even professionals. Places like r/tolkienfans.

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[–] BobQuasit@beehaw.org 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I'd like to see a book suggestion community with a decent number of requests. Something like r/booksuggestions or r/suggestmeabook. Most of what I did on Reddit was recommend books in response to requests.

I wouldn't mind seeing a New England community, either. Or Massachusetts one. I'd start one up, but I don't know if I could handle the moderation responsibilities!

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[–] fred@beehaw.org 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sysadmin, networking, homelab

Begs the question. Is there a way to request a new community on beehaw?

[–] FriendlyFusion@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] fred@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Thanks!. Found it just after the comment. There was a instance called infosec.pub the other day that seemed to have some promise. Seems down now as well.

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[–] herzberd@beehaw.org 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Might not be the most popular option but a shitposting sub along the lines of 196/197/19684 is the major one for me. Would also love to see a 3dprinting community, but I kinda think something along the lines of technical hobbies/niches are a best case scenario for new services joining the fediverse.

[–] vanderbilt@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ooh that is the kind of content that would really make me feel at home. We need a corner for stupid humor.

[–] Moneymunkie@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

For sure! Though I might be mistaken but isn't there already the humor one here? :o

[–] vanderbilt@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

True, but places like 19684 have a certain flavor of humor. It’s like absurdism had a baby with r/dank_memes while occasionally huffing brake cleaner. 😂

Beehaw isn’t ready for it yet as we need to get bigger, but eventually I could see it thriving here.

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

Haha yeah, that seems a pretty accurate gist of it. You're right though, think its just a thing that will come with time and the number of folk start to necessitate subdividing things a little.

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[–] Meilindis@beehaw.org 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'd love to see communities about:

  • crafting (fibre crafts like knitting and spinning in particular)
  • classical music
  • photography
  • Latin
  • history (r/askhistorians?)
  • cats
  • art
  • cooking
  • writing
  • Star Trek
  • menopause
  • AuDHD
  • birdwatching
  • gardening
  • reading
[–] gabuwu@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A knitting and crochet community, regardless if its separated or together as a unified fiber arts community would be a godsend

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[–] petrichorbreeze@beehaw.org 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Any and all of the sports subreddits. Nothing brings more user engagement (positive and negative) than game threads for sporting events. The sooner we can get a thriving sports community going, the faster Lemmy or any social media app will grow.

[–] mustyOrange@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yep. I'm just happy the stanley cup will be done by the time I get off reddit. Definitely need will need something for NFL tho

That being said, I think those should happen on other instances, not all on beehaw. Its a different philosophy than reddit

[–] balderdash9@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Anime, for everything good and holy, please add anime lol

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[–] BraveLilToaster@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago

There was a time when /r/youtubehaiku was one of my most visited subs. It would be great to see more short weird videos that give you a little chuckle.

[–] hamtaro@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Definitely r/retrogaming and r/gamecollecting.

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[–] Mummelpuffin@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Whatever hyper-specific place lets me rant about how everyone misuses PDFs. ...And a BattleTech sub.

Heck, just generally, I wish Lemmy was more like... spin up a server and you've basically got a subreddit. Rather than having these big mostly-isolated attempts at being everything.

[–] somethingclever@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would love to see something like r/AskHistorians. It's my favorite sub by far, and something I have really seen anywhere else. It's heavily moderated (in a good way), and the answers are all high quality and sourced. It's pretty much why I held on to my reddit account as long as I have.

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[–] Clbull@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

AskBeehaw. PC Gaming, Retro gaming, different communities for each major console.

[–] CarolineJohnson@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

FFXIV, stuff like /r/StoriesAboutKevin and /r/TalesFromTechSupport, and /r/xena

[–] p0q@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

/r/curvy . I mean, uh, /r/gardening. Yeah that one..

[–] pyarra@vlemmy.net 5 points 1 year ago

One of my favourites was r/engrish, basically making fun of English misspellings. I couldn't find it so I created it over on https://vlemmy.net/c/engrish Come over and join us and share you favourite misspellings. Already posted a few of my favourites.

[–] Username@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

"Indie Products"- a place for people to nerd out about stuff made by small independent makers and for indie makers to find support maybe? I'm not a maker myself but I really enjoy buying from small businesses and finding out about cool products.

[–] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

I can't seem to find a movies one, best part of Reddit was looking up discussions of the recently released movies

[–] Awa@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago

Didn't see a Futurama community... So I made one.. Come on over!!! https://lemmy.world/c/futurama

[–] preston@possumpat.io 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I’ve setup an instance focused on some niche topics and hobbies, there’s not much there yet but here they are if anyone wants!

FFXIV → https://possumpat.io/c/ffxiv

Bugs → https://possumpat.io/c/bugmenagerie

Esports → https://possumpat.io/c/esports

Gundam → https://possumpat.io/c/gundam

Star Trek → https://possumpat.io/c/startrek

[–] Rhabuko@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

I would like to see a !videos on beehaw.org.

[–] Elyssa_Greensley@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Looking for "local" city and state/province communities. A place to talk about local politics, share information on upcoming events/festivals, talk about traffic and weather.

But reality is Lemmy isn't that big yet. So maybe start regional like how midwest.social is doing and divide it up when activity is too much to handle.

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[–] trashhalo@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

I'd love to see local community pop up like /r/WashingtonDc or whatever town state you're in

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

Videos/mealtimevideos was a big thing for me. They kept me entertained while I ate lunch, lol.

[–] l0st_scr1b3@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

I saw it sort of mentioned, but I think niche shitposting communities like the various okbuddy subs.

[–] lixus98@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Definitely r/genshin_impact

[–] l0st_scr1b3@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

Also wanted to add that a comics equivalent would be nice if there isn't one already. I doubt many of the longtime artists would migrate fully, but it would at least be another platform that could get them greater reach.

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

I'd love to see more communities that cover topics outside of the usual STEM / STEM-adjacent / typical redditor interests. I was on another reddit-alternative a few years ago called tildes and it was ... shockingly like a microcosm of reddit. Like, it's hard to describe how narrowly-focused, how stereotypically reddit, the userbase's interests are. STEM, anime, gaming.

The music, literature, humanities, environment, city life and so on communities are excellent starts in that direction. And, despite the fact I'll never read anything there, the sports community is equally valuable for the same reason.

That said, something for tabletop games would be cool, too. Preferably something not D&D/MtG because we all know they completely take over every space they touch (like my FLGS... RIP).

[–] winterstillness@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I glanced briefly, but couldn't find a topic on it. What's the stance on NSFW (i.e. porn, art, etc.)?

[–] Rhabuko@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Most instances (servers) don't allow porn because it needs constant content moderation (laws against CP and other nasty stuff). They simply don't want the liability. But it's not forbidden to create a server that allows/hosts pornographic stuff. I bet we will see some porn servers in the near future.

[–] winterstillness@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

Thanks for clearing it up. I imagined moderated content along the lines of reddit.

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[–] Lowbird@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

I want equivalents for:

  • r/Fantasy
  • r/tipofmytongue (iirc that name - the one for helping people find shit they've forgotten)
  • maybe r/52books (it produces too many simple posts to just go in r/books, not sure if the same would be true here)
  • r/vegetarian

Edit: r/fantasy is the biggest one for me. In effect the subreddit is really more for SciFi and Fantasy, both - and other speculative fiction - and they have a yearly speculative fiction bingo card that's really fun to participate in. It's mostly books in practice but is not exclusively about books.

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[–] KeefChief12@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I really enjoy the specific game based communities but obv that is a bit of an umbrella.

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[–] rakkhun@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

hmmm…. for politics I would say r/neoliberal and r/socialdemocracy

other than that r/anime r/animesuggest r/demonslayer r/19684 r/towerofgod r/lotrmemes r/historymemes and r/mrfruit

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[–] Netsettler2k@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Mystery, true crime, or r/RBI type content would be all it takes to solidify my place here. Many of those communities across the web lean into their toxicity, so I’m crossing my fingers for a sane place to engage in discussion and participate in deep dives.

Even more specifically, subs like r/whatisthisthing or r/toyid are fun for people who enjoy some light sleuthing. Anyone know if there’s a Lemmy equivalent or adjacent to any of these?

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[–] UnsupervisedScum@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago
[–] mustyOrange@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

I agree, a lot of the PC building communities would be nice to have here

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