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] -5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

How is it Harry Potter themed? There don't seem to be any specific Harry Potter colors, backgrounds, icons, emojis, etc. What do you mean by "themed"?

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

Same way programming.dev is programming-themed, I assume: the communities all fit the common theme of being about Harry Potter

[+] [email protected] -9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I disagree with the use of "theme". It evokes a visual for me. If you went to a "Harry Potter themed conference" and saw nothing that was visually Harry Potter, wouldn't you feel like the mark was missed?
However, if you said it's "centered", "focused", "related", or something similar, then there's no visual.

When you talk about a website theme, most likely you're talking about visuals. Dark, light, dusk, sunset, etc. When going to a X-themed website, I expect visuals that go along with that theme.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I disagree with the use of “theme”. It evokes a visual for me.

That's on you, because the word "theme" does not mean "visual" at all.

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

I disagree with the use of “theme”. It evokes a visual for me.

"Theme" is much, much, much more than "visuals". It's a collection of things put together in a certain place (often metaphorically). Cue to narrative themes, thematic vowels, or the Eastern Roman troops in Anatolia. It does not need to be visual.

[from your other comment] context. we’re on the internet, talking about a website not a carneval.

Context in this case it also includes the fact that we're talking about a place for discussions, leading to the interpretation of "theme" as "discussion topic" (or "the collection of discourses related to each other"). Thus a "Harry Potter-themed instance" in this case should be understood as "an instance where you can discuss Harry Potter stuff".