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] -14 points 10 months ago (4 children)

When you say "queer friendly", are you, the admin of the instance, gender diverse and thus directly impacted by Rowling's transphobia? Because that's the only voice that I'm open to hearing "queer friendly" from when it comes to Potter and Rowling.

If you're not impacted by her bigotry, you have no place claiming that it's queer friendly, whilst actively refusing to engage with the reality of her transphobia.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So you have to be part of the queer movement to be queer friendly ? Please go gatekeep something else

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

When you say “queer friendly”, are you, the admin of the instance, gender diverse and thus directly impacted by Rowling’s transphobia?

No, I'm not. With "queer friendly" I wanted to signal my good intentions here. I don't want to call it a safe space, because I'm not able and also not willing to provide this. Possibly in the future there will be other H.P. instances that are also safe(r) spaces.

So yeah, "queer friendly" is more like a ideal/commitment that I want to try to hold rather than a promise/claim. Or that what was I tried to do here.

If you have a different phrase that could reflect this more accuratly, I will be happy to consider it.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 10 months ago

Then blocking it will be!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

No one cares what you think

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Their rules post also doesn't say ~~anything about transphobic content whatsoever~~ they see the fandom as not inherently sharing the creators views

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Why lie about something that we all can easily verify for ourselves?

Rule 1: Before using the website, remember you will be interacting with actual, real people and communities. DiagonLemmy.Social is not a place for you to attack other groups of people. Every one of our users has a right to browse and interact with the website and all of its contents free of treatment such as harassment, bullying, racism, antisemitism, discrimination, transphobia, hate speech, violation of privacy or threats of violence.

https://diagonlemmy.social/post/108

[–] [email protected] -3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Ah yeah the one line, you're right.

What I should've said is that I'd expect something more substantial, distancing the community from Rowlings stance.

edit: I've changed it to clarify.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

"The rule isn't there!"

"Yes it is."

"Okay, but now the rule should be something more that I just now decided on."

Like, my guy... It's a community for people who want to discuss a story about wizards and magic. What do they need to do to score with these shifting goalposts, take a blood pact denouncing Rowling? They already said no transphobic content is allowed. That already covers it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Yeah no you're right, I was wrong. It seemed like they would've made a bigger deal about it considering the title of this post.

[–] hal_5700X 7 points 10 months ago

They do. It's the first rule.