Beehaw Support

I really miss a place like MensLib. Just to be clear, that’s not Men’s Rights or any of the MRA bullshit. It’s a space for men like the feminism community where men can discuss issues, support each other, and learn without taking up space in other forums like feminism or witchesvspatriarchy.

Not that those spaces exclude men. It’s just that in order for the patriarchy to be dismantled, men have to take and active role to work on ourselves and not at the expense of women or other groups using their own spaces to support each other. Likewise, anyone would be welcome in a menslib community.

I just really miss that place to practice and encourage positive masculinity, and to rally to fight the patriarchy.

There have been many options already, but I'll add:

• Internet Is Beautiful

Just a place to share small sites of the internet that you might not discover easily by yourself.

AskBeehaw

TodayILearned

CampingAndHiking

AntiConsumption

BuyItForLife

ZeroWaste

SimpleLiving

Sustainability

HighStrangeness (Cryptids, UFOs, Ghosts, etc. Nonsense that is fun to post)

Wicca

Podcasts

Permaculture

SelfSufficiency

ExtremeSports or OutdoorSports (Like skiing, ski diving, etc.)

A lot of good suggestions here. I miss /r/Formula1, but that’s probably too niche for Beehaw at this point. That got me thinking along the lines of “motorsports,” with would be nice and broad. A wildcard option is “livesports” where people can discuss, well, sports that are live. Live threads when watching live sports are fun.

WitchesVsPatriarchy?

Given beehaw’s focus on building safe spaces and supportive communities, a community for people in addiction recovery might be a good addition.

Some of those subs in Reddit were / are pretty big, have helped a lot of people, and have saved a lot of lives.

Sustainability/zero-waste communities! I loved those on reddit because they were more about suggestions and practices for sustainable, low-impact living, rather than general environmental news.

Edit: also Fixing/mending! A place for things like visible mending projects.

Shame this happened while 'most' of us Europeans were asleep.

Something I haven't seen mentioned is an alternative to /r/BuyItForLife - I'm often looking for honest thoughts and reviews of products from real people, but it feels silly to pop into !chat and ask what bike pump or jean brand or whatever people recommend.

IdiotsInCars

Science

(then drill down with space, physics, chemistry, etc)

Mathematics please. Unless that is covered under education.

Given how many posts about Reddit have not been on the threads set up for them, a Reddit-specific community to post in might be worth considering. Though I don't know for how long that'll remain an issue, and it could devolve into navel-gazing.

c/videos

Windows OS

And/or

Mac OS

To match all the Linux communities?

The windows discussions on reddit were always really helpful.

Or maybe just Tech Support.

Or an even more general "Advice and Help" or "Troubleshooting" hive, for any kind of troubleshooting.

Bushcrafting

Wholesome (unless Betterment and Praxis covers that?)

• news from anything but the usa, that's sorely needed.
• a general photography community, both for discussion and showing pictures off.
• something along the lines of /r/mealtimevideos.

OutOfTheLoop would be amazing. Sometimes I just want a TLDR of a current topic.

I know there has been some posts of wanting an Archery community, but at the same time the conversations I've seen have also wondered about the widespread appeal of it, and the plan (if a main community isn't created) is to keep posting in sports until (if) there is enough interest.

NoStupidQuestions

A community for interesting facts like r/todayilearned.

PCBuilding

Apologies if some already exist, I haven't thoroughly looked at at the whole list.

Personalfinance
Audiobooks
PCHelp
Bikecommuting
Hiking
Drones
Electricvehicles
Eyebleach[l
Kdrama

I think most of the suggestions here are wonderful and as long as everything is kept positive I think it should attract the right communities to thrive.

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.

• Witchcraft and/or Paganism - Absolutely needs representation. Maybe to make it more general and allow for other religions as well it could be called "Spirituality"?
• Keto
• Stitchcraft/Needlecraft as a subboard of Creative.

Thank you for considering suggestions!

Something like /r/Earthporn?

Anything witchcraft related, if possible.