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Movies and TV Shows

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Hello everyone,

As the previous mod went missing, I got mod rights on this community. For full transparency, see the history between this mod and I: https://lemm.ee/post/44845348

So,as you probably know, the "movies and TV" space is quite busy on Lemmy. At the moment, there is, by order of active weekly users, first one being the most active

For movies:

Details:

https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=movies&order=active

For TV shows:

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 movies communities in one feed.

There are a few options we could consider here

Option 1. Lock it down and redirect to other movies and TV communities.

People were already not posting a lot lately, most of the activity happening on the other communities listed above. There would still be plenty of options (at least two on each topic).

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 it open

Leave it open, and accept that people may not find the more active communities, and post here from time to time.

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 !showsandmovies@lemm.ee (application post in the sidebar)

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[โ€“] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

So if I'm seeing this right, just on lemm.ee there's moviesandtv (this one), showsandmovies (more popular than this one, but seems poorly named and really is just focused on TV), movies (the largest one you mentioned), and now television (the newest). Seems fairly redundant to have 4 comms for 2 topics on 1 instance.

I would say just redirect this one to the more active showsandmovies. Obviously there's demand to have a combined community of both movies and TV and that would actually fix its naming issue, plus having a combined community there would help justify the existence of the new television specific comm.

[โ€“] Skavau@lemm.ee 3 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Yeah, I made television because I didn't think showsandmovies mod team was active. I was then headhunted to help out there. I don't know where television stands now though even if I think it has the best name for... well, tv-posting. Whilst I agree with "showsandmovies" is an odd name as its been repurposed for TV primarily... but it seems to be the most popular and developed.

But whilst you can obviously overlap to some degree, movies and tv are just as commonly separate communities so from 4 you can get at least 2.

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