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I'm creating a new, Harry Potter-themed Community - anybody interested in helping to moderating it? (self.fedigrow)

submitted 1 month ago by blue_berry to c/[email protected]

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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?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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

Do images not work? I've been posting images and they seem fine...

Edit: Oh, I just realized that the images don't federate, and just appear like this:

Edit2: If you want to implement images, and need a new server to do it, that seems reasonable. An alternative would be to consolidate to [email protected], which already has image support and existing subscribers. If you are set on a separate HP server, you should see if floo.net or floonet.works is available. Could be funner than the .social TLD.

Edit3: I have to ask: If diagonlemmy currently has no image support, what purpose was [email protected] intended to serve? 99% of memes are image macros.

[–] blue_berry 2 points 1 month ago

Do images not work? I’ve been posting images and they seem fine…

Oh, you didn't know. Yeah, its really better to use imgur for the time being on diagonlemmy. Its makeshift I know ...

if you are set on a separate HP server, you should see if floo.net or floonet.works is available. Could be funner than the .social TLD.

For me, shit.just.works took the most out of that TLD than anybody ever can ;) Sadly, floo.net is already taken but I also own floonet.world. It emphasizes the global aspect of the community.

Edit3: I have to ask: If diagonlemmy currently has no image support, what purpose was [email protected] intended to serve. 99% of memes are image macros.

It wasn't a consistent decision :D I just thought, hey, what communities would be fun here, and created them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I agree with @[email protected], keeping the existing community would be better as it already has a quite large audience.

I'm curious about the images thing: were they always disabled, or did it happen recently?

[–] blue_berry 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It was like that from the beginning. I didn't want to deal with the image related stuff, moderation, server space, etc. But I think it has limited the growth of the instance significantly. Basically everybody that signed up for the instance never posted anything, this way it never ended up on the joinlemmy page. It feels to me like the instance is stuck because of it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

It feels to me like the instance is stuck because of it.

On that topic, do you have another admin that can take over if needed? That might be why people are a bit reluctant to use your instance as the main one

About the pictures, maybe you can try to reach out to other admins on Matrix ( #lemmy-support-general:discuss.online )?