not to mention it would attract more people - like a “come for the memes, stay for the interesting conversations” kind of thing

Yeah and having a dedicated place for them will definitely help keep everywhere else more tidy

Was going to suggest this myself, +1

Agree. In a similar vein, a humor or jokes community would be nice. Places where you go to get a laugh or have fun and not see anything serious.

a general humor/jokes/memes subreddit is one of the communities we’re going to add, probably tomorrow. it’ll be broader than just memes (and won’t be named memes) for a few reasons, but the big one is just capacity considerations at this point: hosting images here adds up fast and it’s been a problem for us before. we can mitigate some of that by asking people to host offsite, and hopefully orienting it toward humor will also encourage people to make posts that aren’t just images and cut down on some of this

Yeah, we could post to tech, but it’s not really relevant to people who are, say, PC gamers. Would be a welcome community for sure.

this is one we’ll be adding straightforwardly tomorrow. thank you for the suggestion folks

+1

+1, like a c/weeb or something

I agree! A community for sharing pictures (and similar) would be cool to see. Such a community would likely also encourage more OC.

for now, photography and general art stuff is basically covered by /c/creative, and i’ve edited the description to make that more apparent. if it becomes an overwhelming part of the community, that’s when we’ll break it out as its own community. (also see the memes consideration above; image hosting is expensive so ideally people would host their photograph offsite and link it here)

@Butterbee @alyaza Urbanism would be a great addition, indeed. And fuckcars seems more like a place of venting frustration indeed. On Reddit, I subscribed to r/fuckcarsromania, where the mods actually try to create a movement and stir civic action, from reporting cars parked on the sidewalks (a rampant problem, in Bucharest, but not only) to asking authorities for more pedestrian spaces, better public transit etc.

I imagine !urbanism@beehaw.org would be a great community to discuss different ideas and stories about better urban planning and how one can make better cities overall, as well as preserving great cities.

I swear half of my Reddit usage in the past few months has been NotJustBikes and FuckCars. So yeah, something like that might be nice.

this is one we’ll be adding tomorrow as long as people are fine with the community being named “citylife”. we debated other names; in the end we think that one will cover the most topics of an urbanist nature while also still being clear in what it’s about (particularly to people who might not know what urbanism is)

this one will get added tomorrow under the name Nature & Gardening, combining a few of the ideas people have in this thread. thanks!

Focussing on books and literature? Or what do you have in mind?

this will be added tomorrow pretty straightforwardly, like with the programming suggestion above. thanks folks

for now i think most? or all of that can be covered by /c/DIY, which is frankly in need of some love and a userbase that kind of content would provide. failing that, Humanities or Chat are always good fallbacks for “I don’t know where this would go, immediately”

I understand Lemmy is just starting out but will really need to let people do their own thing.

luckily, this is a benefit of federation. while this specific instance doesn’t have this enabled by default, a lot of other instances do–so if you find this a deal breaker, you could register on another instance which has community creation enabled for all users and still interact with posts here as you desire. (this also goes the other way: from here you can interact with basically all of the communities on other lemmy instances, many of which are much more specific than ours)

I love this idea, but it requires quite a bit of overhead and recruiting to gain popularity. I’m not sure we’re large enough to acquire anyone particularly notable but I’m intrigued by the idea. Are you or anyone else willing to volunteer to help make a place like this work? I’m more than happy to chip in where I can, but this seems like quite the potential undertaking.

I would also love to see an AMA community.

Not just animals but nature in general. Been doing a bioblitz in my local area and been loving understanding everything that lives around me is really cool.

for posting pets and stuff, i think Chat would work fine. for more outdoors-y stuff though we’ll be adding a Nature & Gardening section tomorrow.

this (some sort of general neurodivergent or mental health community) is a good idea that will probably be a part of the next wave of community creations. no ETA on that but i can’t imagine it’d be more than a few months. if we keep growing it might be a few weeks, lol. in the interim, Chat is a good place for generally bouncing ideas off of people and talking about stuff like this

Chat or Humanities should cover this type of content for now, but yeah food’s a good one that we’ll probably add in the near future since it’s kind of an unavoidable topic lol

There are some pretty active Linux communities here on lenny.ml, you might wanna check those out

EDIT: Just checked your comment history, looks like you already found it :P nvm!