you know the drill i’m sure, let’s not waste time. many of you have already noticed we’ve created the first batch of our six new communities, which are:

  • AskBeehaw: a community which is exactly what it says it is, asking the Beehaw community stuff! this was our most popular community on the survey, and it’s also inclusive of AMAs or stuff like out of the loop (which overlaps somewhat with Chat–we’re fine with that).
  • Tabletop Gaming: after some delay, the tabletop and boardgaming communities have their own section! this community is, as noted, inclusive of boardgames and similar things to them–we’ve already got a mod in the section looking out for that side of the community, so that’s nice :)
  • US News: we’ve converted !news into World News (see here for why in brief) to accommodate that popular demand, which means that US News now gets its own community! in conjunction with us the community there is being cultivated by @Powderhorn@beehaw.org, who has quite a lot of news experience and has a pretty clear vision of what that community will hopefully bring to the community table. we hope you’ll like that vision.

other three communities should drop about next week, so be on the lookout for those.

as noted in the other announcement we’re also taking mod applications. we’re taking them for both new and old communities, so please feel free to apply over there if you’re interested. thanks

  • Lee@beehaw.orgEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    I would also love to see a smarthome community. As far as I know there is no such Community on Lemmy. I would of course help to moderate it if you need someone.

    Anyways, I really like to see that Beehaw is growing and growing.

    Thanks to everyone who is helping making it a better place.

    • LezBeClear@beehaw.orgEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I would also be interested in this community. Through my work, I have a fair bit of knowledge and experience to contribute.

  • Alteon@beehaw.orgEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Are we able to request new community additions? I’m unsure how these get added - is it just mod discretion or is there some sort of community involvement?

    • alyaza [they/she]@beehaw.orgOPMEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      mod discretion but it’s ultimately a pretty involved process. in this case: we took a bunch of suggestions from people, weeded out ones which we didn’t think would work, hammered out scope and function of the remaining communities, then polled the whole site on which ones they’d actively contribute to. in this case we picked six out of 17 possible ideas after those steps (the two most popular ideas, two popular-ish ideas we also liked, and two niche-r ideas we thought would be good and unique additions to our community).

  • ulkesh@beehaw.orgEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I’d be happy to throw my hat in for helping with moderation. I’m partial to /c/tabletop since that’s my primary hobby in life, but if I can be useful at any point in any community, please let me know! Thanks :)

    Nevermind, read the other post and submitted an application. Thanks a ton!

  • Rentlar@beehaw.orgEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Sweet! We’ve gotten quite big so it is time to splinter off Chat and Gaming just a little…

    Everyone on other instances be sure to “discover” these so they update over there.

    • Wigglet@beehaw.orgEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Please come fill Betterment with positive mutual aid/community related news to the point we need a whole new Good News sub 😂🙏

    • Baggins@beehaw.orgEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Vegetarian/vegan subjects whilst accepting that not everyone has the same views. Anyone that will not accept they have the only correct opinion is free to move elsewhere.

      I blocked one person yesterday as they would only accept their own opinion as being the correct one and tried to brow beat others in agreeing. We’re done with that here, let’s leave it on R****t.

    • alyaza [they/she]@beehaw.orgOPMEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      i have absolutely no idea what we’re gonna do with that one to be honest. my personal opinion is that it’s probably not worth the headache if people are going to make it a battleground and that’s been the tendency since we announced it, but the other mods are substantially more optimistic on it than i am so we’ll see

      • LSNLDN@beehaw.orgEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        What is the debate? They’re two quite different things really, aren’t there two communities?

        • alyaza [they/she]@beehaw.orgOPMEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          They’re two quite different things really, aren’t there two communities?

          if we made them two separate communities they’d be two extremely dead ones, since even combined they were one of our least popular options. as result, we’re trying to figure out how we can combine them without annoying people or having the community be full of annoying people that make it unfun for the people who’d use it to do so

          • LSNLDN@beehaw.orgEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            Ok. I sorta get it but yeah as a vegan I gotta say vegetarianism kinda annoys me a bit just because like…. Why? Animals still suffer and get killed for vegetarian products so what’s ones reasoning behind being vegetarian? It doesn’t help environmental causes being vegetarian as animals still there to pollute and it clearly doesn’t tackle the animal cruelty problem. I do have the benefit of living somewhere I can easily get great vegan fake meat etc so I understand being vegetarian sometimes when this isn’t available so easily, for convenience sake (if that’s a morally justifiable excuse idk) but only with an aim toward veganism, in which case shared group makes sense. That’s where im at, I don’t mean it to be an offensive or aggressive position, it inherently feels it somehow obviously the world being so opposed to my view and me being so sure that the rest of the world just don’t yet see their psychopathy (just how nowadays it’s pretty clear slavery is wrong, 200 years ago peoples opinions less sure…)

            • cyberdecker@beehaw.orgEnglish
              1·
              1 year ago

              the rest of the world just don’t yet see their psychopathy

              This is why we can’t have nice things. Regardless of your morality or theirs, this excludes others in a harmful way and is ultimately why I personally greatly dislike and avoid most vegan/vegetarian social communities. I feel like comments such as this are the “battleground” that mods don’t want to deal with. In a community that tries to be nice to all, calling out the psychopathy of someone who thinks differently feels very inappropriate and disrespectful on many levels.

            • TMoney@beehaw.orgEnglish
              1·
              1 year ago

              This comment does seem to prove their point as it’s pretty antagonistic towards people who are doing better than me who is a plain ole meat eater.