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

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

    • Blaze (he/him)@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
      5·
      3 months ago

      Let’s see what other people suggest.

      Lemm.ee is solid, and there is already [email protected] and [email protected] 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)

      • rglullis@communick.newsEnglish
        2·
        3 months ago

        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.

        • Blaze (he/him)@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
          4·
          3 months ago

          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.

          • rglullis@communick.newsEnglish
            2·
            3 months ago

            Please, not this again…

            There are no users in the instance because registrations are closed and I was creating the communities on demand to make a home for the mirroring bots. The idea of these instances is to be a home for groups, not for people, precisely to avoid issues of politics and constant concerns about centralization.

            All I am asking now is for you (and others) to try it.

            • Blaze (he/him)@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
              4·
              3 months ago

              We can go through this again, having the network of communick communities depending on you might be seen as a single point of failure.

              I know you have said that there are other people involved, and who could take over if needed, but I could also see why people, seeing instances like lemm.ee, or reddthat.com, well managed for over a year, would be more inclined to use those.

              • rglullis@communick.newsEnglish
                0·
                3 months ago

                Yeah, we are definitely rehashing the discussion. If you don’t trust that I can do a good job enough by myself (despite never having any major outages), the best way to ensure that these instances can have a guaranteed longevity is by having them growing the network. Let us grow the network, and I’ll be able to either (a) hire more people or (b) making them attractive for sponsors or © letting the community take over and manage it as a separate entity.

                But above all, please don’t take your personal concerns and attribute them to “other people”.

                • Blaze (he/him)@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
                  1·
                  3 months ago

                  But above all, please don’t take your personal concerns and attribute them to “other people”.

                  Sorry, missed that comment.

                  Do you really believe I am preventing other people to post content to the communities hosted on your instances?

                  • rglullis@communick.newsEnglish
                    1·
                    3 months ago

                    All I mean is that I would rather you talk about the things that concern you instead of arguing indirectly by mentioning “other people” that are just abstract entities.

                    LIke, it’s fine if you don’t want to contribute to the topic-based instances because of the concerns you stated. But when you say “some other people might think this” instead of being upfront and say “I think this”, you create an impossible conundrum for me to solve: as much as I can try to work with you to solve the issues that concern you, I can not find and work with “other people”.

                    Also, even if you don’t want me to argue this case with you, it would be easier/better when you are straightforward about it. I’d take the hint and just “agree to disagree” on this particular topic, and move on.

                    Hope that makes sense.