I often come across ideas for new communities (sometimes I even have them myself), but I’m not always sure whether they would get traction.
How about a “suggest a community” community, where people can post suggestions, and get feedback on the idea, maybe tweak it a bit to be more useful, and also look for co-moderators?
It could act in parallel to !newcommunities@lemmy.world
Anyone have any ideas for how this could work better? Anyone want to co-moderate one?
411 brings it up for me.
Yes, but first you would need to know that: 411 = “I can’t find a specific community because it doesn’t have a logical name, so can you help me out.” Ironically, the name 411 embodies the problem perfectly.
This is giving me some serious chicken and egg vibes.
It’s riffing off a Canadian/US telephone directory. Agreed, not a universally useful name…
Really? I had to look it up, and I found out that it was shut down in late 80s.
So that’s good to know next time I happen to be speaking with someone who is both old enough and from a particular part of the world.
What about !fedigrow@lemm.ee ?
Interesting, i worked for 411 untill '98 and my daughter’s mother worked there into 2001 at least.
Apparently there’s a mistake. Feel free to update the article.