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

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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] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't understand your comment about no images. [email protected] 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:
[email protected]
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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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yes, @[email protected], do you need help with making pictures work on your https://diagonlemmy.social/?

That would probably be easier than creating another instance

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

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 ...

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

You can have a look at themes, those might be an option to make things more interesting: https://github.com/2xx04/lemmy-ui-themes

https://github.com/HrBingR/Lemmy_CSS/

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

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.

[–] [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 )?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

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

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.

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

The Site Which Must Not Be Named, r/harrypotter and r/HarryPotterMemes still get dozens of posts per day.

How much of those are reposts? I go to /r/HarryPotter from time to time, the quality of the posts is quite low

But indeed, there is potential

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

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.

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

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

Interesting, I'm a millennial myself, I always thought that later generations just dropped HP altogether

[–] blue_berry 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I think its a bit complicated. For example, there was a big buzz when all H.P. novels were included in Netflix. On the other hand many queer people literally hate J.K. Rowling. But from all people that I know who read reguarly, I would say most persons have read Harry Potter.

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

Thanks for sharing!

[–] jordanlund 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

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

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.

[–] jordanlund 2 points 1 month ago

Yup, but we saw how that worked out with the Hogwarts game... there were still issues. :(