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submitted 1 week ago by stuartml@piefed.social to c/piefed_meta@piefed.social

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Here is something I find myself wishing for in Piefed:
A "suggest a community" option - because not everyone has the time or energy to start and manage their own, maybe if it gets a certain vote and someone volunteers as moderator it gets created.

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[–] Vicinus@piefed.zip 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Seems like you identified a missing aspect, that could be beneficial to the threadiverse.

Although, I'm not sure this makes the most sense as a feature, but should rather be a specific community. I think it would fit in quite nicely with the other community building communities:

!newcommunities@lemmy.world (announce)
!communitypromo@lemmy.ca (promote)
!lemmy411@lemmy.ca (user discussion)
!fedigrow@lemmy.zip (mod discussion)

Now with: SuggestACommunity@instance (ideas)?

Maybe another community or a running stickied post, with people volunteering to potentially mod certain types of communities. Comment example in such a stickied post: "I'm potentially willing to mod a history or data analysis community".

If a post suggesting a community that matches the potential mod's criteria comes up, they can be tagged/pinged in the post so they know to come check out the post and see if they want to mod the suggested new community.

[–] Blaze@piefed.zip 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

!fedigrow@lemmy.zip can be used for this, it's not that active, and the "Suggest a community" discussion would definitely fit.

As a side note, I feel like having the idea of a community is usually fine, the difficult part is keeping it active.

[–] Vicinus@piefed.zip 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Could be worth trying it out. Maybe a scheduled weekly post asking for missing/wanted community ideas.

I do think a stickied willing mods post with perhaps a weekly/monthly post to remind people to sign up (comment on stickied post) if they are interested and willing.

Also, if this does happen in fedigrow, you might want to update the sidebar to reflect the expanded areas of interest.

Edit: Might have found a first new community idea(small business owners).

[–] Blaze@piefed.zip 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I just made you a mod on !fedigrow@lemmy.zip , feel free to make any change you think can help on this topic!

[–] Vicinus@piefed.zip 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Appreciate the trust :)

I think I'll just add a bit to the sidebar to indicate the community includes discussions about starting communities:

"To discuss how to start, grow, and manage communities / magazines on Lemmy, Mbin, Piefed and Sublinks"

[–] Blaze@piefed.zip 2 points 1 week ago

Sounds good! Feel free to schedule the post you suggested as well