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!

  • annenas@beehaw.orgEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    I’d love a community related to making clothes :)

    Basically r/sewing and r/historicalcostuming, but it could also include stuff like shoemaking, knitting, altering clothes, thrift flipping, hat making, vintage clothes, maybe also cosplays.

    This is currently all in the creative community here but that one is a little too broad to my taste.

    • StringTheory@beehaw.orgEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      “Fibers and Fabrics” would cover spinning, nalbinding, crochet, knitting, macrame, clothing, quilting, sewing, weaving, etc. and still be broad enough to be a lively community.

      When things get too specific, they get sparse and lost and alone…

    • Fox@beehaw.orgEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Yessss, visiblemending and invisiblemending were 2 of my favs on reddit and got me into sewing, seeing a place for projects like that would be super fun.