Hello everyone,
Some context: it is usually agreed here than centralization of communities on Lemmy.world is detrimental to Lemmy as a federated platform (see this post https://sopuli.xyz/post/11972110 for detailed explanations), which is why a few communities have been started to get general topics off LW:
One topic that is still quite popular today is television, and there are basically two options
- !television@lemmy.world which some people prefer to avoid, which makes sense. Also, it’s currently unmoderated except by the Automod bot, the last human bot left a few days ago.
- !moviesandtv@lemm.ee which is known to be managed by a single mod prompt to power tripping mod (see https://lemm.ee/post/30754133)
I am thus opening this thread to see if people would be interesting in opening a television community elsewhere. I’m going to ping the last posters on that topic in the comments.
Edit: the objective here is to find potential moderators for that new community.
See you around
I miss the Lemmy film and TV instance. That’s the perfect subject for a specific instance to be centered around. Somebody should bring that back.
I miss it too
yeah go for it, i’m happy to start posting in a new community
Would you like to moderate too? I have enough communities at the moment, so the objective is also to find other mods for that potential new community
I’d also be okay with creating a new community, but I’m not interested in moderating.
Thank you for your comment!
Sure, no worries, i can
Great! Which instance do you have in mind?
Haven’t thought about it, which so you recommend?
Let’s see what other people suggest.
Lemm.ee is solid, and there is already !movies@lemm.ee and !animation@lemm.ee there, so that could be an option.
Sh.itjust.works is always an option, but I’m personally not a big fan of the name.
The rest of the top 10 instances by MAU (https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy/) are rather targeted to a specific demographic (blahaj), language (feddit.org) or topic (programming.dev)
https://metacritics.zone was made for that. I am planning to add soon the functionality to let people create communities by themselves on instances they do not have an account on, but if you want I can create it for you.
Update: created. If any of you wants to become a moderator, let me know.
That can be an option too, but I could see why people might want to choose an instance with a higher number of monthly active users.
how about?
Keeps it general, open to tv, movies, anime etc
General rules:
- Encourage others
- No Ad hominem attacks
- Stay on the general topic
It seems like there is enough content to distinguish animation (thanks to the work of @darakan@lemm.ee on !animation@lemm.ee ), movies and television, so maybe a dedicated television community is better?
Hey, bumping this comment, still interested in moderating a potential !television@lemm.ee ?
Hello,
Just checking in, do you know when you think you’ll be able to create the community?
why are you tagging me *edit - yes, a television community would be fine. but you don’t need to tag me in post, I’m a member of this community. if you post it, I’ll see it when I come here.
Thank you for your comment.
I pinged you to see if you had any other opinion to share on this initiative, so thank you for this.
yeah just please don’t do it again
Noted!
Burying the intent to find moderators in the comments, not vetting those moderators, and pinging known aggressive users into the thread are each gigantic red flags by themselves. But, it may succeed on luck and user effort, despite the quality of work.
Burying the intent to find moderators in the comments
Updated in the post
not vetting those moderators
Wouldn’t that happen after potential moderators show up? If you are referring to @jet@hackertalks.com, they have been known for being around for a while, so that’s as much vetting as can be done
pinging known aggressive users
Who are you referring to? The main criteria was looking at who posted recently about television, and get their feedback.Edit: Removed their ping from the comment.
Edit: had to go through your comment history to find out. Removed their ping from the comment.
Now I’ve got to remove the comments so I’m not a target. Thanks for the “help”.
Perhaps, because of your numerous, large magnitude, elementary, and now combinational errors, you should halt your efforts, seek the help of a small group, and only then go public.
Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection. - MLK Jr.
so I’m not a target. Thanks for the “help”.
Removed that too.
You’re meeting expectations, white moderate.
Looks like you don’t need any help making yourself a target.
100% I was totally blindsided by the shear hostility displayed here to someone trying to make things better.
