Hello everyone,
This post is kind of the continuation of another post on [email protected] : https://lemm.ee/post/57999596
In summary, the question is what to do with the multiple lemm.ee communities related to TV shows.
Lemmy has a whole has quite a few of those. At the moment, there is, by order of active weekly users, first one being the most active
For TV shows:
- [email protected]
- [email protected] (created recently: https://lemm.ee/post/57792851 , the creator recently joined the [email protected] mod team )
- [email protected]
- [email protected]
- [email protected] (seems abandoned)
https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=television&order=active
As you can see, it’s quite messy, with a few recent communities. You see people from time to time mentioning how the first “multi-community” they create on apps like Voyager is one to get all the TV communities in one feed.
There are a few options we could consider here
Option 1. Select one lemm.ee community, redirect everyone to it, and lock the two other ones with a pinned post redirecting to the main ones, while keeping all posts and comments up.
The argument of “different instances” and “different moderation teams” doesn’t really apply here and the three of them are on the same instances, and moderated by the same people.
A script can be used to ping everyone who posted and commented recently to make sure that people follow through. Example: https://lemmy.world/post/24312613
Option 2. Keep all the communities open
Leave them all open, and accept that people may not find the more active communities, and get decision fatigue as those three communities would basically be the same (same instance, same moderation team).
Other options - your suggestions
Feel free to provide your suggestions in the comments.
As a note, I’m not offering a “give a new mod team”, as any person wanting to volunteer as a mod would we welcome on [email protected] (application post in the sidebar)
Pick whatever instance to be the main and lock the others. The userbase for Lemmy is still tiny, no reason to split up to discuss TV/film.
TV/Film are pretty different communities, but the overspill of them can be merged - to be sure.
Move them all to one. Lock the others. Either one for movies and one for tv, but honestly there such few content why not do both? It’s current state is a mess.
Movies and TV are quite different communities to be fair
theres also entertainment, and actors for shows,etc. thats on reddit. i think they are all on reddit.
Okay, so I’m the guy who set up [email protected]. My instinct would be to say that the “TV” side should all come under that just because of the name being more intuitive. I was sorta surprised “Television” wasn’t taken. I do realise also this community is quite a bit larger than my community.
The history of this seems a bit odd as the name is technically “showsandmovies” yet it’s been repurposed to be about television, or was instantly edited to become about TV/streaming. But that’s my bit.
I haven’t a clue what to do with “moviesandtv” though lol.
To be fair I also like [email protected] better, the name is more explicit and makes it easier to find for new joiners.
I get jokes from time to time how this community is about sand x)
Here’s my maybe crazy maybe super cold take. People post about TV in Television, and movies in Movies. Then we pick one of the combined subs and just have Television and Movies crossposted there in case people want both topics without having to go outside of a single community. I have no idea how feasible this would be to work out between mods and people subscribed to the various communities involved.
What’s the harm in letting it be? Can’t do anything about those other instances, or someone starting something new anyways.
Mostly discussion splintering. You would see the same article posted across two or three communities, some people will only see one of them, when there were interesting comments they were replying to on the other ones
Well we collectively operate most of those communities, so we can lol.
1-3, yes. 4&5, no.
I personally don’t see the harm with letting them be, with maybe a sticky or something in the sidebar that says hey this one is the must active
Sorry, yes, excluding the off-instance examples. Although they’re pretty much dead. There’s way more random disorganised/abandoned tv/movie communities across lemmy.
