[Discussion] About a more structured movies and TV community
[Discussion] About a more structured movies and TV community
Hello everyone,
Opening that thread following the latest discussions on !moviesandtv@lemm.ee.
I am now suggesting to retake this community or create another one that would be more structured, especially
- weekly "what have you been watching lately" thread
- dedicated threads for shows and TV. Discoverability of those threads would be eased by having a research bar in the sidebar.
What do you people think? Should we use this community, or create another one? If the latter, what would be the name? /c/moviestvreviews? /c/moviestvdiscussions? Feel free to share your suggestions
@THEDAEMON@lemmy.ml @maegul@lemmy.ml as you seemed to be interested
I would really love to see a /c/moviestvdiscussions explicitly. In an ideal world you'd see more direct support from existing movie/tv communities as most of those mods do not seem interested in the extra work. Otherwise, I feel like direct competition with the larger communities will act to everybody's detriment. That said, I did suggest this to @Djinn@lemm.ee and it looked like they simply downvoted and moved on, so that is obviously not ideal. On the other hand, a larger contingent making this suggestion may convince them.
Another path forward may be to reach out to !movies@lemmy.world and !movies@lemmy.ml for links in order to drive traffic here. The former of the two seems to have previously hosted such threads but appears to have stopped (maybe due to the moderation requirements?). If done correctly, this may leave the fediverse more connected while improving the overall quality and levels of content on each community. Given enough momentum !moviesandtv@lemm.ee may find it difficult to remain in opposition to this project.
Thank you very much for this suggestion.
I like the idea of having a community clearly dedicated to discussions too, but I guess that can be something we decide after we get a few more people active here. Maybe we can just keep this one and have clear rules on what type of content is allowed.
I might post to !movies@lemmy.world, but I'll probably have to contact the mods first as it might seem rude to promote a similar community on theirs.
Bold suggestion:
There is literature.cafe for books and instances for RPGs, video games, etc why not one for film and TV?
- screen.cafe
- screening.room
- screend.it / screened.it
- screen.er
You could have communities for genre or specific types of film (giallo? Slasher?) or regional films (French film, German film, etc).
Big films/shows or franchises could get their own communities.
There are various communities around that could move over to help get everything moving.
Hello,
Thank you for your suggestion, always happy to see you here.
Since the fall of lemmy.film, seems like no one wanted to manage a movies instance.
It might be nice to have it in the future, but I guess right now we only have communities
Since the fall of lemmy.film, seems like no one wanted to manage a movies instance.
I'd forgotten about that. However, there are many reasons an instance fails. There's no obvious final message, it just looks like @jayrod@lemmy.film (using a federated link to get old messages) went MIA 7 months ago and the instance carried on for a couple more months. This seems common - it happened on feddit.uk when the original Admin's enthusiasm waned. We came close to setting up a new instance and migrating everyone there but we got a message through and we were able to switch it over to a new sever and are just now working on funding. So it wasn't that there wasn't interest in keeping the instance going from the users but if you have a single point of failure (something else we've worked to correct) then, eventually, it will fail. It doesn't mean it isn't viable.
@kingmongoose7877@lemmy.ml I believe you were the other Admin - any insight?
Proposition of rules
- To prevent news from overwhelming the community, news article are either posted in the Weekly news thread, or in the movie/show Discussion thread. We can make use of Lemmy's new comments feature to see them.
- Posts are of a few different types: Discussion thread, Weekly thread (what have you watched, news), Discussion (any subject is welcome), Posters, Trailers. That way the amount of posts will be limited, encouraging discussions in threads.
Let me know if that makes sense or is completely nuts.