Very cool! I have also created a few communities for a similar reason; Hive has a wealth of so many music-centric communities, but they all have so many rules I found myself too hesitant to post in any of them - so I created a rules free music space (Acoustic Lounge). You play the spoons? Bring 'em! You play drums on plastic buckets? Show me what you got! Just getting started with guitar and want to share your unpolished progress videos to ask for advice? Welcome home! lol - the rules bit is cool, but I also do enjoy a little good old fashioned 80's style reckless abandon where applicable. I also have prison hooch for informal brewing experiments and the azl index community which is kind of like a place for me to just put things I might want to link to later.
This was a fun read, I'm glad to see someone else creating communities and building awesome spaces!
Really great points here - communities are tools - use them in the way that makes the tool useful for you!
Amen brother!