I agree with everyone who’s said that an LW for teenagers isn’t needed.
This sounds like “hey, I’m starting up a special-interest listserv. Suggestions?”, and I encourage any special-interest listservs, thanks to the long tail.
In the OP, there’s a lot of talk about joining a list- it’s not clear if it’s a list of issues or a list of people. It looked to me like a list of people organized as a listserv, but that’s not the only option that fits with the OP as written. So, if that wasn’t the intention, that’s my formal suggestion: make a listserv first, and see what grows out of that.
This sounds like “hey, I’m starting up a special-interest listserv. Suggestions?”, and I encourage any special-interest listservs, thanks to the long tail.
A listserv is a different medium. It needs less users to reach critical mass.
In the OP, there’s a lot of talk about joining a list- it’s not clear if it’s a list of issues or a list of people. It looked to me like a list of people organized as a listserv, but that’s not the only option that fits with the OP as written. So, if that wasn’t the intention, that’s my formal suggestion: make a listserv first, and see what grows out of that.