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.
Shows and TV
Open discussion of Media / Shows / Television
- Be nice
- Don't go off topic
- Don't rage farm
Other communities
We are still open to mod application, please comment on this post: https://lemm.ee/post/40675177
Movies and TV are quite different communities to be fair
Okay, so I'm the guy who set up television@lemm.ee. 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 !Television@lemm.ee 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)
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
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.
theres also entertainment, and actors for shows,,,etc. thats on reddit. i think they are all on reddit.
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.