hello folks!
with our backlog cleared and many new people around, now’s a good time to do our first-ever Beehaw Community Survey–the first of what will likely be(e) many to come. this survey should take no more than 5 or 10 minutes to fill out, so we strongly encourage you to do so when you are able to. you can find it at the following link:
Beehaw Community Survey
the survey is comprised of seven optional demographic questions to help us assess the overall identity of our community and three questions relating to Beehaw and the Fediverse. it also asks you about 17 possible communities we are considering and whether you would actively participate in them if made.
the survey will be open for approximately a week. we’ll definitely close it before July 1, so please get your responses in before that date. it’ll also be locally pinned for at least the next three days or so, so please mind that. thanks!
results will also be aggregated and posted on here in a summary sometime thereafter. no ETA on that though.
Obviously it wasn’t on the survey but I figure I should at least mention what I’d like to see directly, I would really love to have some kind of automotive community here. I’d be happy to pitch in and help develop it, but I do not think I could be a full time moderator.
Having a friendly supportive place to talk about cars, driving (high performance or otherwise), projects, and grassroots motorsports would be awesome.
This is probably a much later addition I don’t know how much interest there is here. Just putting it in the suggestion box.
Keep your eyes open in the future…this is almost certainly not going to be the last round of community creation. The admins are being very deliberate about the process though.
Yes and I really appreciate it, manageable growth is key to the success of this instance. If you don’t voice your thoughts there’s zero chance of being heard though and I was curious to gauge interest and thoughts about an automotive community here.
Yeah some kind of automotive/motorsports/powersports community would be nice. It’s my area of expertise and I enjoy sharing knowledge and helping others; but I’ve also seen how those communities turn toxic with the quickness. I wouldn’t want any part in trying to moderate that.
Every community that’s passionate about something has these issues, but with vehicles there’s an extra layer I think as they are often seen as extensions of ones physical self and ego, consciously or not, so enthusiasts can take criticism of their vehicle very personally. Also you practically have to be an engineer to fully understand everything going on in a car, so misinformation abound, mostly due to games of telephone from some necessary simplification of a concept somewhere.
I’d love for motorcycles to be included, as I love both
due to our general principle of broadness with communities we’d definitely do this to start if we made an automotive community
If cagers and bikers can get along we might achieve world peace. 😂
Probably to start they would go together I’d imagine since Beehaw is quite small. Long term they really are wildly different worlds though I can appreciate both, I’ve driven/ridden everything from scooters to class 8 tractor trailers personally I’m down for anything with wheels and a motor/engine.
I also would really like an automotive community.