Hi folks, are you hoping anyone picks up the torch and makes a community on here? How about a wishlist? Hopefully this will give a poke to others with mutual interest and to support some collaboration!

Running these things is not hard, a fun hobby and due to the nature of the Fediverse, rather laid back. Do not be afraid to try and take control of your content. This is what this place is about. You have agency here. If you have and idea and would like help with starting a community, raise your hand here!

I’ll start:

  • Wild Green Memes for Ecological Fiends
  • Palaeontology
  • Climate
  • Meteorology
  • Volcanism
  • Entomology
  • Oceans
  • PlantClinic
  • Hydrology
  • History of Science
  • Open Science
  • Digital Humanities
  • Ferns
  • Orchids
  • MrSpectroscopy@mander.xyz
    5·
    1 year ago
    • Astrophotography
    • Printed circuit boards
    • Electronics
    • Optics
    • Atmospheric science
    • Air quality
    • Meteorology
    • Sensors (also noted by Salamander)
    • arduino
    • 3dprinting
    • minerals
    • fluorescent minerals

    I’ll add more as I think of more

  • Salamander@mander.xyzM
    2·
    1 year ago
    • Photochemistry
    • Ethnobotany
    • Macro Photography
    • Electrodynamics
    • Psychedelic research
    • Mollusks
    • Nudibranchs (Oh, that one exists but should be more popular!)
    • Genetics
    • Pigments
    • Symbiosis
    • Sensors …

    I can go on forever :-P

  • Mothra@mander.xyz
    1·
    1 year ago
    • Paleontology (though we have palaeoecology already?)
    • psychedelic research (but don’t we already have generic psychedelic?)
    • entomology/bug ID, and bird ID, any animal ID
    • do we have neuroscience already?

    I also used to frequent r/thalassophobia and r/natureismetal, not sure if those would fit the bill here.

    I am not typically someone who contributes with posts though, but I’m happy to moderate if you guys need a hand.

    My concern is with starting a lot of communities and have no material to contribute consistently. I find it rather discouraging to join when I find a subreddit that looks interesting but abandoned

  • Gloomy@mander.xyz
    1·
    1 year ago

    I’d love to see more communities focusing on

    Climate Astrophysics Collapse

    Since those were the main reasons for me to use reddit as an information hub.

  • goji@mander.xyz
    1·
    1 year ago

    I wouldn’t mind seeing some of these:

    • Succulents
    • Ornithology
    • Nootropics
    • Ask Science
    • Nature Appreciation (general/casual, amateur photos, hiking, etc)

    I also very much miss r/goblincore, but I feel like that miiight be a stretch for this server

  • fossilesque@mander.xyzOP
    1·
    1 year ago

    Adding to the list:

    • Foraging
    • Psychology
    • Something History related if not History general. Maybe environmental history or something.
    • Documentaries
    • Solar Punk Makers, for Maker projects with an eco twist.
  • 1stTime4MeInMCU@mander.xyz
    0·
    1 year ago
    • There are 8500 different programming communities, but maybe something TRULY Computer Science oriented (more mathy side, rather than dev / engineer oriented), possibly including Artificial Intelligence, but I’m thinking like papers, not r/singularity rip offs.
    • Also maybe something about FOSS Science (like to discuss packages such as AstroPy, ROpenScience etc).
    • I was also thinking like a tech sustainability form (combining tech + plants. robotic vertical farming, “Open Source Ecology”), not sure if that necessarily fits with the spirit of mander or not :)
    • Bloodbeech Forest@mander.xyzEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I would love this as well. I want to add also some more foundational/philosophical oriented topics like foundational physics and mathematics, and philosophy of science (or natural philosophy as Sean Carroll likes to call it).