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.

  • Barbarian@lemmy.reckless.dev
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    2 years 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.

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      2 years 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

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        2 years 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.