Fedigrow @lemm.ee blue_berry @lemmy.world 2 days ago

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

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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I don't understand your comment about no images. !leaky_cauldron@diagonlemmy.social 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:
!harry_potter@diagonlemmy.social
!harry_potter_memes@diagonlemmy.social
!harrypotter@lemm.ee
!harrypotter@lemmy.world

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.
- 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.
  
  Yes, @blue_berry@lemmy.world, do you need help with making pictures work on your https://diagonlemmy.social/?
  
  That would probably be easier than creating another instance
  
  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 ...
  
  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/
  
  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.
  
  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?
  
  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.
  
  I agree with @threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works, 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?
  
  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
  
  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.
  
  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
  
  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.
  
  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

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