i think its better to start with a join movies&tv comm, you probably want to grow it fast and managing two new comms may get to confusing/tiring for the mods, plus it will be the mods the main posters there until it gets big enough

Interesting, you have a point! I guess we could start with a common community, but named "movies@lemm.ee" and allowing both movies and tv content.

Having it names like this makes it future proof for when we'll probably eventually split and have television@lemm.ee. If we go with "moviesandtv@lemm.ee", when we'll reach the point where we need to split, that might make things confusing.

it a good idea to have it on an instance that its federated to most big intances so lemme and lemmy.ml are good choices, with lemee being a bit better because of lax moderation and i think making comms there is easier

Definitely agree

Would you like to become a mod with me? I don't expect that much work, movies are usually not a very controversial topic

Thanks for the tag. Yea like you and others here all I would have suggested is lemm.ee. Seems a good fit for spreading the community load while also going for a good and well run instance.

There's an instance out there that has a ton of tv show communities, we could ask them to create a movie one, if only I could remember the name of the instance

reddthat is a great instance, and I'm glad to see that it's not just a single-admin setup. If you vanished (I hope not!), does the team have the access, knowledge, finance and motivation to continue?

It's good to see you around, you guys are doing a great job over there! I guess we'll probably go with lemm.ee just to have more users able to access the community from their local feed, but thanks for offering!

Is anything good on your side, funding-wise?

Have a look at my post on !fediverse@lemmy.world , this instance (as well as a few others) went down recently

You're 100% right, I think we do a lot more to stop content rotting like this. Now it's half gone, with any contributions from other instances unable to federate, fracturing any more conversation.

Maybe we need to do two things:

• ensure that popular instances aren't single-admin shows (so there needs to be a team with the skills, finances and motivation to run if one or more disappear, or at least the credentials in escrow so someone can step in)
• have some system to backup/migrate content

The migration one is tricky, because ActivityPub is very tied to urls. I guess that you could make dummy account for the conversation you brought over, so you'd at least have a read-only record.

Are you sure the content is gone? I assume the communities had users from other servers, if so isn't the content replicated on other servers?