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Why isn't there a Harry Potter-themed Lemmy instance yet? (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by blue_berry@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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It's one of the first things I would expect from a site like this. I know that J.K. Rowlings views are very controversial to put it mildly, but:

The fandom/books are not the author
Harry Potter will become a part of the Fediverse at some point anyways - better to support it early on and shape its developing rather than having a company build a H.P. social network on top of the fediverse, which will be to our disadvantage
In terms of potential users, this could be huge for the threadiverse
We are in the Fediverse: defederation is always a possibility

Or was it just never tried before / no one wanted to yet?

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[-] HKayn@dormi.zone 1 points 10 months ago

There are legitimate reasons for creating an entire instance for a specific fandom. Independence from other instances and their federation decisions is a big one.

[-] rglullis@communick.news 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Sure, but it seems like that the "need" for independence would come only after the community is already established and some type of conflict came up that made it impossible for them to stay in any of the other already-existing instances.

To put in concrete terms: I wouldn't have any problem to create a HP community on a topic-specific instance like https://metacritics.zone. @blue_berry@lemmy.world, would you be interested in that? I can make you mod if you want.

[-] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 10 months ago

To put in concrete terms: I wouldn’t have any problem to create a HP community on a topic-specific instance like https://metacritics.zone. @blue_berry@lemmy.world, would you be interested in that? I can make you mod if you want.

Keep it easy, I think a community such as !harrypotter@literature.cafe is more than sufficient for now