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As stated in our sidebar:

Although our initial goal was to provide a new platform for r/PoliticalCompassMemes, we welcome the expansion to various new topics and themes.

which is why we are finally opening this thread.

If you have any suggestions for a community that you would like to run on our instance this is the place to post them. While our Rule 0 (no illegal content) remains our golden policy, there are a couple more guidelines for you to follow.

Community creation guidelines

Take out your own trash: if you propose the creation of a community you must either moderate it yourself or appoint a willing moderator when you submit your request.
Don't burn our bridges: while we value free speech, we also want to maintain a friendly and constructive atmosphere. Please refrain from posting any content that is deliberately hateful, as this could jeopardize our federation with other instances.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I have a theory of forum community organization of sorts, if you look at how an encyclopedia is organized for example:

https://infogalactic.com/info/Portal:Contents/Portals

There's a few top subjects of:

General reference, Culture and the arts, Geography and places, Health and fitness, History and events, Mathematics and logic, Natural and physical sciences, People and self, Philosophy and thinking, Religion and belief systems, Society and social sciences, Technology and applied sciences

So if a community is created for each, it covers all topics (and then people can make subcommunities where desired or necessary where there are other distinct communities)

edit: so I could mod something like "!health" for "Health and fitness", or !history for "History and events", etc.

I don't really have to mod any of these, just letting you know how you could create a few simple communities to cover all topics

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for the idea, however I'm not sure of how I feel about that. If any of those topics particularly interests you, then sure, we can open some of them. But I wouldn't rush opening a community for every topic on Earth, just for them to remain empty and forgotten. After all, there's plenty of general purpose instances we are federated with, out there.

And more importantly, the reason why I said "you most mod it yourself or know someone that would" is because I don't want to spend my days as a janny (and of course we can't have modless communities either), so that's still a pretty important point to cover imo.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

they do all interest me as I like a variety of things and I could mod some (there aren't too many reports that really come in) although they may remain a bit empty, I'd have no guarantee of that