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?
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?
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.
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
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.
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.
Interesting, I’m a millennial myself, I always thought that later generations just dropped HP altogether
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.
Thanks for sharing!
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.
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 !harrypotter@literature.cafe, 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 !harry_potter_memes@diagonlemmy.social intended to serve? 99% of memes are image macros.
Oh, you didn’t know. Yeah, its really better to use imgur for the time being on diagonlemmy. Its makeshift I know …
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.
It wasn’t a consistent decision :D I just thought, hey, what communities would be fun here, and created them.
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?
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.
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 )?