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I have a few community ideas that I'd like to gauge interest in. Don't necessarily want to flood the instance with empty communities. Feel free to pose your own ideas as well. See comments!

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[–] PinkBow@burggit.moe 2 points 11 months ago

Would there be any interest in an astronomy or stargazing community? It'd be a place to share observing logs, astrophotos, and general space-related images and news, especially if relevant or interesting to amateur astronomers.

[–] RA2lover@burggit.moe 2 points 10 months ago

Absurd Patents - a community showcasing patents that should have been too obvious, too broad, too stupid or too ridiculous to be granted or enforced.

[–] Mousepad@burggit.moe 1 points 1 year ago

Lemmy drama

Essentially r/subredditdrama or r/watchredditdie but for Lemmy. With federation choices between instances, I feel this is ripe for content. In my head I would like posts to be approve-only to ensure quality, accuracy, and non-bias (in the actual post, bias in comments is fine), but that doesn't seem straight forward in Lemmy right now. So I would just monitor it tightly. There's lots to be said about lemmynsfw vs Burggit vs whateverthatotherinstanceis, so I would enjoy such an instance.

[–] PinkBow@burggit.moe 1 points 1 year ago

Right now loli and shota art posts are fragmented across a bunch of communities. It'd be convenient to have an all-inclusive loli/shota community, that accepts both 2D and AI, and all age ranges from infant to teen lolis/shotas. Basically it'd be something like "All loli and shota art within the site rules.

[–] Mousepad@burggit.moe 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Chess community (/c/chess)

A sfw community for chess. Organizing informal burggit arenas, sharing videos, puzzles, etc! Most things would ideally be hosted on lichess, following the FOSS philosophy (as opposed to chess.com).

EDIT: I have made it! See: !chess@burggit.moe. Ping for responding users: @nobody@burggit.moe, @PinkBow@burggit.moe

[–] SomeRandomAccount@burggit.moe 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

NSFW~~I want a /c/toddlercon. Most toddlercon (and babycon) would be allowed, with mandatory tags for more extreme stuff or AI.~~
This exists now: !toddlercon@burggit.moe

More real porn communities would be nice, specifically scat (should also have a hentai community tbh) & gay porn (mostly twinks).

[–] Mousepad@burggit.moe 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

LGBT community (/c/lgbt)

A sfw (with nsfw memes allowed but not porn) community for its namesake.

EDIT: I have made it! See: !lgbt@burggit.moe. Ping for responding user: @AWildLoliAppeared@burggit.moe

[–] AWildLoliAppeared@burggit.moe 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How is this NOT already a thing?

[–] SmolSlime@burggit.moe 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Lol I'm quite surprised there are actually queer people here. I assumed since this is a, well, free speech Lemmy instance, this place would be filled with anti-LGBT people. So I minimized talking about it here.

[–] Mousepad@burggit.moe 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Like rinkan mentioned, the admins have been pretty outspoken about how being free speech oriented is not the same as being a bunch of assholes. For example, from this featured post:

What Burggit is not We are not another Kiwifarms, Gab or Voat!

While we’re fine with people posting offensive speech and imagery, we won’t allow them to use their right to “Free Speech” as a weapon against the overall health of the platform. Threatening, Berating, Dogpiling, Doxxing and otherwise being complete and total assholes to other users will not be tolerated.

[–] Burger@burggit.moe 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I was going to write up a response, but you touched on everything I wanted to say. Good jorb. :3