Gradually we’ve been seeing the tv and movies or shows and movies communities pick up activity, which is good, and the multiple games communities each seem to be doing okay too.

Entertainment

However, there remains kind of an awkward spot where there’s not exactly a general entertainment community (outside of Beehaw, that is) from what I can tell. There is an existing community, !entertainment@lemm.ee, though that someone could try to pick up and make active.

This could serve as a catchall for some of the more business-oriented news and some of the fluff celebrity chatter, depending on how one wants to go with it. Worth noting for celebrity chatter there is also !popculturechat@sh.itjust.works though.

Music

In a similar vein, while there’s a variety of music communities, there’s only a few generic ones, with the largest outside of Beehaw and Hexbear being the largely undefined Music community on Lemmy World. The lack of definition, that is, no sidebar guidance on what the community may be used for, makes it unclear what the community’s expectations/preferences for posts are.

As with entertainment, this could be where more music business news could find its home, alongside some band chatter. Although as with entertainment, there’s a music-themed community for the chatter to be found at !popheads@poptalk.scrubbles.tech for those interested.

Sports

Likewise with sports, there’s a ton of different sports communities, but only two large generic communities to be found on Beehaw and Hexbear (supposing Lemmyverse is accurate). Before any of the more specific sports communities can gain more activity, I think it’d help to have a generic sports community to help people get oriented and find likeminded folks to form whatever specific communities they’d like.

Much like the first two, this could be for sports news and chatter…But unlike the first two, I can’t find any generic fluff sports star/team chat communities.

Ideas on How and Where to Organize

In each of these cases regarding broader communities, I think following a similar organizational approach to Beehaw could be a good idea, but they would be better suited to instances more openly federated and not at as much risk of defederation. A few Lemmy instances that come to mind for this are Lemmee, ShitJustWorks, Lemmy Zip, and perhaps Reddthat?

I’m not sure where Mbin instances are in terms of federation smoothness and stability, otherwise I might suggest some of them. On a different note, if there were more Piefed instances I might suggest them, but last I checked the flagship seems to still be the largest and isn’t open for community creation.

In short: there’s good opportunities for broad, generic topic communities for entertainment, music, and sports on more widely federated instances. At the same time, even where these communities may exist on some widely federated instances, opportunity remains for more clearly defined variations of these communities to encourage posting with less uncertainty.

  • rglullis@communick.newsEnglish
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    2 months ago

    they do not want to take on the additional tasks of modding or administrating your instance and you find their reasons unacceptable so you make this comparison

    This is not what I’ve asked. All I’ve asked was to look into the content that he was already interested in posting (e.g, tv shows and football) and to do in the communities from the topic-specific instances instead of the bigger “user” instances, and every time there was some random objection to avoid doing it.

    • You are running these alone, what if something happens to you? I have a friend who worked with me before and has the ability to take over my operations in case something happens to me.
    • This is not enough. He is not involved now Ok, so let me put these instances in some type of collective with the admins. I don’t mind to continue operating them and covering the operational costs, all I would like is to have some commitment from any type of current admin that can assuage your concerns.
    • Your domains are too expensive, admins will not be interested in paying for this. I am not asking the eventual co-owners to pay for anything.

    The excuses are getting more and more ridiculous. It actually got to the point where the reason to avoid joining the football instance is because of the domain name having “soccer” instead of “football”, but at the same time saying “please don’t buy a football domain”.

    The funny thing is, I wouldn’t mind at all if he came out and said “no, I don’t want to help you”, even if there was no particular reason for it. The unbearably annoying thing was this concern trolling, this constant “Oh, I don’t mind helping, but only after X”.

    • Elevator7009@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Thanks for addressing my concern. With this additional context it looks like he’s trying to refuse without being straightforward about it (from my end). Although I get it is a tactic to try to be nice instead of hurtful, it often just leads to more hurt, especially when people take the action to do “X” and they still get a “no”. Wasted effort trying to convert a “no” to a “yes” that could never be converted, and probably inadvertently pissing off someone who wishes you would just take a hint when you understandably take them at face value because some people do legitimately say “no, for X reason” and could be converted to a “yes” when X is addressed. It would be better for all parties to be straightforward. As someone who cares a lot about being nice and protecting peoples’ feelings, it is, in fact, very possible to be straightforward and honest without being rude or hurtful.

      • Blaze (he/him)@feddit.orgEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Alright, so here we go. The following links point to specific comments from where you can start reading to see our discussions.

        So, in a thread from 23 days ago

        Another thread from 14 days ago:

        Another thread from 20 days ago:

        Another thread from 24 days ago:

        Last thread, 3 days ago:

        So to summarize

        Rgullis position is that

        My position is

        • having too many instances managed by a single person is a high security risk. We see instances disappear regularly, usually it’s not a big deal because they are smaller instances, but currently, even if LW were to disappear, there are enough backup communities on other instances to keep going. It would be an issue, but the platform would recover
        • My next suggestion was then indeed to have someone else helping rglullis with managing those instances
        • based on the thread from 4 days ago, no admins has jumped in and offered to help: https://lemmy.world/post/20236330?scrollToComments=true

        As a way to try to help him to get why people are not joining, I pointed out that

        • relying on paid accounts with amounts such as 30€ per year while some instances have user costs as low as 0,11€ per month (so 3€ per year) https://lemmy.world/post/19466047 is unrealistic (and no, assuming that people browse Lemmy from “shiny iPhones” is not a reason: https://lemmy.world/comment/12172203)
        • setting up an infrastructure that costs 1700 € per year on domain names alone is unreasonable (hence my comment to not buy a “football” domain name)
        • having one small team per instance instead of a centralized consortium managing all of these instances seems healthier. The local team manages their instances, they make it grow organically, people see that the instance is reliable, they start trusting it and establish communities on it

        I already due my due diligence when I choose an instance to host a community I post too. Rglullis do not pass this. I’m not avoiding saying no to him, I think they are a good sysadmin and do a good job, but they need a backup.

        Hope that clarifies things a bit.