Harry Potter Fandoms will be a part of the Fediverse one way or the other. It’s better to shape this development rather than being overwhelmed by it.
Harry Potter Fandoms are a huge opportunity for the Fediverse. Look at what the collaboration of Lego and Disney brought to Fortnite. People want to spend time in places, in which they feel familiar and welcomed. I'm not saying collaborating with big companies here, what I'm saying is: the Fediverse needs to be filled with life and we have to use that opportunity first, before others do.
Don't throw the opinions of J.K. Rowling and its fandom in one bucket. It’s one of the biggest in the world, there is a broad range of opinions and people.
The Fediverse needs more projects that immediately make sense to people. Projects that you tell a person about, and they say: "Oh, yeah, that makes sense." Mastodon in comparison to Twitter was such a thing: its billionaire proof. Everybody gets why that's a good thing. A better, more open place to build Harry Potter fan sites could be another.
The project (including other places like this that may follow) could also become another attractive place on the Fediverse for the open-source community. Who wouldn’t be excited to help build the world of Harry Potter?

All of this is of course up for discussion. I'm a very stubborn person but I'm also able to listen ;)

Edit: I removed "queer friendly" from the description. Its not a claim that I can fully uphold anyways. Instead, it has a no tolerancy policy against transphobia, which is more clear and probably easier to enforce.

Here is the link: https://diagonlemmy.social

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

Well, as always I'll recommend our small existing community [email protected]

Literature.cafe is a lovely instance, Gabe the admin is a very nice person.

Good luck with your instance, I'll probably visit

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

direct comm subscribe link [email protected]

fyi, Mbin now can utilize the standard ! format

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Thank you Mbin expert

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I second that, happy to hear Gabe is still around, gotta head over there!

[–] inb4_FoundTheVegan 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Since he is being brought up, you should read exactly what Gabe said about the HP community. Clearly seems uncomfortable by the entire concept.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Gabe was also okay with us keeping the community there. I asked him on Matrix. If you want evidence, they appointed one of my alts as mod, which he shouldn't have done if he wasn't okay with the community.

We were ready to move the community elsewhere if Gabe would have preferred us to.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Thanks for the link, and yeah I devoured the books back in the day but wouldn't recommend them or talk well about them today because the writer went apeshit pro TERF and more. I mean WTF.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Thanks :)

The more the merrier. I will check it out sometime if I find the time.