Forgot about here.

After looking at the voting of the main two options supported by people here, I decided on moving the community to Piefed. It was basically neck-and-neck when contrasting the active contributors to the community who voted (I did preference them over people who had never interacted), and I decided the outcome based on my preferences here.

No slight is meant here to sopuli.xyz. I know little about it other than it is a well-respected instance, it's just that Piefed has had my eye for some time, and is a very interesting and fast-developing lemmy alternative with a lot of cool functions that Lemmy lacks (polls, flairs, topics, feeds (basically multireddits), and post/community notification subscriptions to name the most notable) - and the television community on here was already working as a kind of shadow instance and had collected 200 subscribers from very little activity that I set up briefly before lemm.ee announced it was closing its doors. I was also using it when creating my Forumverse Feed system. Piefed Accounts do only currently work with the Interstellar app right now to my knowledge, but expanded application support is on the way - but it can be browsed across most of the fediverse in any case.

And even if piefed.social as an instance itself does collapse or we get upset at how the instance is managed, or it can't take the load - piefed communities are designed to be modular, and easily movable across other piefed instances. So if necessary television@piefed.social could easily move to another piefed instance and lose no content and potentially even automatically take piefed users with them without having to resubscribe (not sure on this one). And there are multiple new instances based on piefed popping up now. So ultimately this in theory protects television or any incoming community from having to completely start all-over again.

And even though lemm.ee has like 20 days left, it's quickly deteriorating as people leave it, close communities. So its time to build and get back to spamming TV articles and inane questions.

Television Matrix Room Link for anyone who has any suggestions, grievances or whatever.

!television@piefed.social

Perhaps some instances or some add-ons do this. I think it should be native.

I realise this could have its problems with abusive mods (although Lemmy records when people edit posts), but to me, it has a lot of benefits. Some communities have rules around how posts should look for clarity and/or aesthetic purposes. Sometimes as a mod I see posts that I think are fine, but could just be slightly adjusted to look a bit different or match up with the standards of the community - and I don't want to be anal and remove it over something small like that - but I would quietly edit it.

Let me know of some communities to be added, and suggest to me where to put them.

https://piefed.social/f/forumverse

Here is the outcome from the brief chat I had here. (Reposted from Fedigrowth)

This is not finished - not in categories, not in organisation, not in community placement, but I'm getting exhausted currently. Many communities on here are old, dead, tired. Some are new. Many categories are barren, some are overfilled and need more segmentation. I'm just sharing what I've built as I think this could be very helpful to community advertisement and exploration.

I'd like anyone who runs or knows of communities to let me know here, so I can add them.

And if anyone is interested, should I make a matrix or even lemmy community in aid of this?

https://piefed.social/f/lemmycategories

Here is the outcome from the brief chat I had here.

This is not finished - not in categories, not in organisation, not in communities, but I'm getting exhausted currently. Many communities on here are old, dead, tired. Some are new. Many categories are barren, some are overfilled and need more segmentation. I'm just sharing what I've built as I think this could be very helpful to community advertisement and exploration.

I'd like anyone who runs or knows of communities to let me know here, so I can add them.

Just a thought: But I was reading this thread, and although I had thought of it before - it came back to me again. Seems to me that Lemmy, even a particular instance, could work on a sort of "Categorisation System" function whereby communities would be categorised under certain tags so new users (and anyone really) could filter for communities they have interest in. So you would filter by, for instance: Conversational, Memes, News, Politics, Movies, Gaming, Technology etc. Some communities could have multiple tags. It would even be cool if you could exclude certain tags too. So someone might want to see "News" but not "Politics" and filter for communities focused on news, but without any political focus. There could even be subcategories too, so: "Conservational" would have specific types of discussion underneath it: "Debate", "Casual" etc.

You could then order by activity, subscribers, creation date - much like you can now on here.

I realise there have been some attempts at this, like: !lemmydirectory@lemmy.dbzer0.com, but it seems abandoned (and incomplete) and too much work and too awkward to somehow represent in a particular community.

I also think that if such a system was to exist, it would have to somehow be moderated by others as any community mod could poorly or deliberately categorise their community badly. Something on a larger scale to Piefeds system.