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:

• !movies@lemm.ee
• !movies@lemmy.world
• !moviesandtv@lemm.ee (the one we’re in)
• !movies@piefed.social, a new one, see this thread: https://feddit.org/post/8934906?scrollToComments=true, trigger was power tripping from LW mods

Details:

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

For TV shows:

• !showsandmovies@lemm.ee
• !television@lemm.ee (created recently: https://lemm.ee/post/57792851)
• !television@metacritics.zone
• !netflix@sopuli.xyz (seems abandoned)

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)