Hello everyone,
This post is kind of the continuation of another post on !moviesandtv@lemm.ee : 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:
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 !showsandmovies@lemm.ee (application post in the sidebar)
What's the harm in letting it be? Can't do anything about those other instances, or someone starting something new anyways.
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.
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