For people interested in movies, you may have noticed that !moviesandtv@lemmy.film is now gone, unfortunately.
The community was quite active, especially with the movies discussion threads, it would be nice to create a new one elsewhere.
As Lemmyworld and lemmy.ml already have most of the active communities, I thought it would be interesting to have this one (maybe two, one for movies, one for TV) on lemm.ee ? In a similar way that !games@sh.itjust.works is a popular community on sh.itjust.works (thanks @nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works for posting there)
i think its better to start with a join movies&tv comm, you probably want to grow it fast and managing two new comms may get to confusing/tiring for the mods, plus it will be the mods the main posters there until it gets big enough
since its a general comm, it a good idea to have it on an instance that its federated to most big intances so lemme and lemmy.ml are good choices, with lemee being a bit better because of lax moderation and i think making comms there is easier
i think its better to start with a join movies&tv comm, you probably want to grow it fast and managing two new comms may get to confusing/tiring for the mods, plus it will be the mods the main posters there until it gets big enough
Interesting, you have a point! I guess we could start with a common community, but named "movies@lemm.ee" and allowing both movies and tv content.
Having it names like this makes it future proof for when we'll probably eventually split and have television@lemm.ee. If we go with "moviesandtv@lemm.ee", when we'll reach the point where we need to split, that might make things confusing.
it a good idea to have it on an instance that its federated to most big intances so lemme and lemmy.ml are good choices, with lemee being a bit better because of lax moderation and i think making comms there is easier
Interesting, you have a point! I guess we could start with a common community, but named “movies@lemm.ee” and allowing both movies and tv content.
its a good idea to be ready, i think admins can change the name of comms, also you should probably claim the TV comm name even if you arent going to use it at the start just to make sure.
Oh damn, did lemmy.film shut down? That's a major bummer. I really liked the Movies and TV community.
As Lemmyworld and lemmy.ml already have most of the active communities, I thought it would be interesting to have this one (maybe two, one for movies, one for TV) on lemm.ee ?
That's exactly why I chose to post articles in moviesandtv@lemmy.film over the movies/tv communities on lemmy.world. I try to support communities in smaller instances by posting relevant content but I guess this is just an inherent risk of lemmy.
I think Lemm.ee would be a fine alternative but infosec.pub may be worth considering too. The owner/admin runs multiple instances across the range of fediverse services (including the popular infosec.exchange mastodon server) so I think the risk of it abruptly shutting down is extremely low.
Thanks for the tag. Yea like you and others here all I would have suggested is lemm.ee. Seems a good fit for spreading the community load while also going for a good and well run instance.
There's an instance out there that has a ton of tv show communities, we could ask them to create a movie one, if only I could remember the name of the instance
reddthat is a great instance, and I'm glad to see that it's not just a single-admin setup. If you vanished (I hope not!), does the team have the access, knowledge, finance and motivation to continue?
It's good to see you around, you guys are doing a great job over there! I guess we'll probably go with lemm.ee just to have more users able to access the community from their local feed, but thanks for offering!
Sadly this once again shows that Lemmy is too fragile. The content is now gone, forever. This is not good and I want to see a feature that we can preserve content. What if a big instance disappears for some unfortunate circumstance? Like the whole instance owner team died in a plane accident and suddenly you have thousands of posts and content disappear. Lemmy isn't build by a huge company that will have decentralized solutions, backups and emergency access.
You're 100% right, I think we do a lot more to stop content rotting like this. Now it's half gone, with any contributions from other instances unable to federate, fracturing any more conversation.
Maybe we need to do two things:
ensure that popular instances aren't single-admin shows (so there needs to be a team with the skills, finances and motivation to run if one or more disappear, or at least the credentials in escrow so someone can step in)
have some system to backup/migrate content
The migration one is tricky, because ActivityPub is very tied to urls. I guess that you could make dummy account for the conversation you brought over, so you'd at least have a read-only record.
I saw ur request to take over !movies@lemm.ee still hasn't been answered so I set up !moviesandtv@lemm.ee so we don't have to go without a community any longer. If you're interested in moderating just let me know!