cross-posted from: https://literature.cafe/post/30387402
Ik that there used to be Diagonlemmy, but, IMHO, we should create an instance that is exclusive to Harry Potter, and the Wizarding World.
Perhaps call the instance Wizarding.World, or something.
That way, Fediverse users who wish to interact with Harry Potter material can, and other users/instances/etc, can defederate/don’t have to.
Harry Potter is only going to become more popular.
The HBO Harry Potter series is coming. Whether we like it or not, the HP fandom is about to have a significant resurgence, and it’s going to find a home somewhere on the internet.
The question is whether that somewhere is Reddit, Discord, and corporate platforms — or whether the Fediverse gets there first and shapes what that community looks like.
People flock to spaces where they feel familiar and welcomed.
Rowling will profit from HP whether a Lemmy instance exists or not.
The Fediverse needs more projects that make immediate sense to people, and it needs to stop ceding entire fandoms to corporate platforms by default.
The move isn’t to reject the fandom.
The move is to build the instance with explicit values — pro-trans, pro-queer, progressive moderation, zero tolerance for bigotry.
Pull HP fans into federated, open spaces and surround them with those values.
That’s far more powerful than gatekeeping.
I shared this, because I wanted to know what the general consensus was.
Also if there were any users who might have any experience with potentially creating/running their own instance.
Be prepared to be defederated from almost immediately as it opens by people… as well, as an instance admin, I can say it is hard. Even for a small instance. As well, people are just going to downvote your instances content as soon as its posted. The only reason we have the harry potter community still on literature.cafe is because its dead and most posts to it are critique of the TERF JK Rowling and the series, if it was positive content we’d likely have to delete it.
As long as it’s okay to criticize homophobia and transphobia JK Rowling spews, I say go for it.
I find it amazing that JKR pretty much gets a free pass when someone like Gaiman is so me-too-ed that people online throw out his books and trash his mostly progressive history. Just imagine the condemnation if someone suggested a Gaiman community. Weird, subjective times we live in.
I mean this thread does have -27 downvotes
Why would this decision require a public feedback sesh? Build it and they will come. Or they won’t because they read some stuff about the author.
Because a lot (if not most) of Fediverse hate anything Harry Potter.
Also, neither me, nor the community’s mod, have the resources to potentially create an instance.
Then fuck off
No
Stupid TERF
No U
Just please, say the quiet part loud, that’s all people want.
“I support jkr but I don’t want to say it cause I know it would make me look bad”
People can like and love Harry Potter without endorsing or even being aware of Rowling and her views.
Removed by mod
I think it does that only when you’re actively supporting new work.
As in, I’ve never seen anyone publicly demonize someone else for using the term Lovecraftian or discussing his influence on literature.
But if you purchased a new publication called “The Infallible Brilliance of HP Lovecraft” it’d be really suspicious lol
I think it’s enough to criticize the author and their work in hindsight when we find evidence of their prejudice inside it, without it meaning that everyone who’s ever enjoyed the fiction is an evil demon person (especially ones who were impressionable kids at the time). Same for Good Omens.
No. We don’t need a new instance for every mass media piece of shit. Definitely not scumbag HP.
Make an instance for Hoppers first. I hear it’s actually good.
The move isn’t to reject the fandom.
The move is to build the instance with explicit values — pro-trans, pro-queer, progressive moderation, zero tolerance for bigotry.
This feels like building a forum to discuss Mein Kamph, and then saying it’s going to moderated with a focus on inclusion, human rights, and diversity.
With the whole HP thing, there are IMO far too many people fully separating the art and the artist. I just can’t morally do that.
I understand the point you’re making, but we might be losing the plot comparing Mein Kampf to Harry Potter…
