Link to the modlog: https://reddthat.com/modlog/11298

Link to the community: !movies@lemmy.world

Edit: for context, I first sent a DM to the single mod asking them if we could consider merging communities (basically my comment below). They ignored me but opened the thread.

My comment

Should we maybe consider merging this one with !movies@lemm.ee ? We have regular pinned posts and movie-specific discussion threads over there, and that community has been more active than this one lately, be it weekly or monthly (1.54k vs 1.32k and 2.92k vs 2.51k). The moderation team has several people, including movie enthusiasts who post there regularly. We had our first AMA a while ago a few weeks ago: https://lemm.ee/post/31335226 And if people ask why we wanted to have a community on another instance than Lemmy.world, the large majority of active communities are already on LW (https://lemmyverse.net/communities?order=active), it seems better to spread communities a bit.

Reason for removal

Not currently considering this action Maybe in the future.

I guess I’m just a bit sad that they removed the comment altogether instead of letting it there and considering a discussion.

I’ve heard several times that Lemmy should consolidate communities (like what happened with !mapporn@lemmy.world and !map_enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz recently), but I guess it’s easier said than done.

In the meantime, congrats for making this community the most active one!

  • maegul (he/they)MEnglish
    21·
    7 months ago

    Well, I can’t speak for Blaze or the other mods at all … but this community (or at least Blaze and kinda myself) has already done the merging thing, and at that time it started with a conversation with the other mod. As this community has gone through that before, it makes sense that the idea is reasonable to (at least) the mods here, while the other community might be alien to the notion.

    Beyond that, part of the motivation is to get more communities off of lemmy.world, which is an ideal felt pretty widely, if not universally, around lemmy/threadiverse … so the suggestion was always to get them to merge with here (where, again, we’ve done the same before, forgoing this community to merge with another). So yea, talking about it here could have made sense (which is what this post is also about TBF, but also like I said, some neutral space for such discussions probably also makes sense), but I don’t think talking about it there is a bad idea at all, rather I think it made sense, where, again, I just struggle with the notion that mods on lemmy are competitively trying to poach users from each other.

      • maegul (he/they)MEnglish
        1·
        7 months ago

        Probably … I’m personally not subbed to fedigrow and that would be the problem, that most aren’t either (which is fine, many are happy to just use the platform).

        Perhaps something more dedicated to community discovery and recommendation instead? Basically like the “new communities” community, but more general.