• Blaze@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Sometimes I question the fact that some communities might be too niche, but even on something as generic as !movies@lemm.ee there aren’t that many people wanting to talk about movies

    • LittleTarsier@lemmy.caEnglish
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      5 months ago

      I think part of the issue is there’s multiple communities on different instances for the same topic. I’m subscribed to like 4 different movie communities. If we all just stuck to one, maybe there would be better engagement?

      • Blaze@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
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        5 months ago

        That’s interesting, because I can exactly tell you why there are so many movies communities

        • !movies@lemmy.world got created but is pretty much unmanaged. People on LW just post there out of habit, or because they support LW
        • there was historically a moviesandtv on an instance called lemmy.film. It was getting some traction, but then the instance disappeared
        • to keep another instance out of LW, people (including me) got involved into !moviesandtv@lemm.ee. It was going well, but at some point I suggested to have discussion threads for current movies, and to engage more with the community. The mod found that “backseat moderating” and banned me. The details can be found in the spoilers in the OP here: https://lemmy.world/post/11446250?scrollToComments=true
        • I thus took over !movies@lemm.ee, to kind of have that space to discuss movies.

        I think we might consider posting to !movies@lemmy.world to promote the two others on Lemm.ee. I actually did that 2 months ago to talk about the Dune discussion thread we had on !movies@lemm.ee: https://lemmy.world/post/12820343?scrollToComments=true

        18 upvotes, no comments, and that’s it. I guess a few people went there, but I’m not sure.

    • misk@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      5 months ago

      Isn’t this because there’s already moviesandtv which seems to be better suited to the current community size?

      • Blaze@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
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        5 months ago

        moviesandtv exist, but don’t really allow people to discuss movies and shows, it’s mostly about news.

        I suggested at the time to just have a pinned post like “what have you been watching”, but got banned by the mod for “backseat moderation” (see below: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/8381687)

        The other issue is that as Lemmy posts don’t have unique URLs that can be used by every instance, you can’t just have a megathread with links to discussion threads, as that would work only for one instance

        • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.worksMEnglish
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          5 months ago

          The other issue is that as Lemmy posts don’t have unique URLs that can be used by every instance, you can’t just have a megathread with links to discussion threads, as that would work only for one instance

          I’m curious as to how Lemmy apps solve this issue (which they seem to have done), and why the web interface doesn’t have similar functionality. In Eternity and Thunder, I can tap on a link to a post on another instance, and it opens the corresponding post on my home instance.

          Is there some lookup table under the hood to match post IDs between instances? Whatever system apps are using, why would this not work more broadly?