My current instance, diagonlemmy.social has no images, which is not great. So I’m thinking about creating an instance with a Harry Potter meme community.

What do you think?

  • kersploosh@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    5·
    3 months ago

    I don’t understand your comment about no images. !leaky_cauldron@diagonlemmy.social looks like what you want, and I see plenty of image posts there.

    If you don’t like that community for some reason, you might try resurrecting one of the existing dormant Harry Potter communities:
    !harry_potter@diagonlemmy.social
    !harry_potter_memes@diagonlemmy.social
    !harrypotter@lemm.ee
    !harrypotter@lemmy.world

    Or, if you really want to start your own community, then by all means do it. Just know that it’s a lot of work to get a new one off the ground and build a critical mass of active users.

    • Andrew@piefed.social
      7·
      3 months ago

      OP is admin of https://diagonlemmy.social - if you look there directly (rather than at your instance’s copy of ‘leaky cauldron’) they seem to have an images problem - anything that should have copied locally is broken. I’m not sure that the same person creating a new instance (which is what they seem to be saying) would be the solution tbh.

        • blue_berry@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          2·
          3 months ago

          Thanks but I’m also a bit bored of the overall design. I want to try a bit new things. But yeah, the question is whether its worth it …

            • blue_berry@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
              2·
              3 months ago

              Oh cool.

              Actually, the instance is already running: https://floonet.social/. I just haven’t activated the communities yet. I don’t know. I really like the idea of the floonetwork. Its like the idea of the fediverse already exists in the world of Harry Potter. I think it would be cool to bring more parts of the H.P. fandom in the fediverse, however, until now, every fansite I wrote to didn’t reply.

              • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.worksMEnglish
                3·
                3 months ago

                Aside from a different name, what would floonet provide that diagonlemmy does not? We’ve already spent effort growing the original communities. Why abandon it and start over?

                • blue_berry@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
                  1·
                  3 months ago

                  I think images are important and on diagonlemmy, I dont want to try to add images and break stuff.

                  I’m not sure, I think the effort to move the community wouldnt be that hard I think. First crossposting to both, then moving to ghe other. I also think that many would come along and so the work already put in wouldnt have been wasted.

                  But yeah, it may be unnecessarily risky.

              • Blaze (he/him)English
                3·
                3 months ago

                Cool name, I liked diagonlemmy too, they both sound good!

                I think the HP fandom isn’t that active anymore, after 15 years people probably moved on, and it’s not like there is that much interesting new content being created

                • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.worksMEnglish
                  2·
                  3 months ago

                  the HP fandom isn’t that active anymore

                  I think it only seems this way due to the small size of the fediverse. If you dip into The Site Which Must Not Be Named, r/harrypotter and r/HarryPotterMemes still get dozens of posts per day. The memes are endless, and there’s a new TV series coming out in the next couple years. The HP fandom is definitely still active, and if we want to grow the fediverse (#fedigrow), we can definitely benefit from this.

                • blue_berry@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
                  21·
                  3 months ago

                  But look alone how much buzz Hogwarts legazy created. Actually, I think if the Fediverse would do it right, this could be the thing to make us mainstream.

                  Yes, there are many other fandoms out there, but its still popular enough, even among boomers and millenials. You need to remember we need to get them aboard too and Harry Potter could be the least common denominator here.

                  And for my generation, it also has a certain provoking edge to it, with which to distinct us from our “woke” milenial parents, who abandonded Harry Potter for its author.

  • jordanlund@lemmy.worldEnglish
    65·
    3 months ago

    I would advise strongly separating Harry Potter from J.K. Rowling or you’re going to be buried in anti-trans and TERF based hate.

    • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.worksMEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      This seems like an addressable issue. Most HP communities these days usually have a “We condemn JKR’s transphobia” note pinned somewhere. Authors are not synonymous with their published works, and I think most people understand that.