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:

  1. The fandom/books are not the author
  2. 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
  3. In terms of potential users, this could be huge for the threadiverse
  4. We are in the Fediverse: defederation is always a possibility

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

  • kylie_kraft@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5413·
    11 months ago

    1. fuck J.K. Rowling and anything to do with her.

    2. you want a Harry Potter themed instance? fucking make one.

    • grandel@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      8 months ago

      I’ve obviously missed something here, but why the hatred towards Rowling?

  • DerisionConsulting@lemmy.caEnglish
    312·
    11 months ago

    People who are part of the Fediverse are generally progressive, which is why they are here to begin with instead of facebook/Xitter/reddit.
    People who are progressive generally don’t like people who don’t like trans people.

    This is just anecdotally, but it there seems to be much higher than average rate of trans persons on the fediverse.

  • BlazeEnglish
    24·
    11 months ago

    There is !harrypotter@literature.cafe if you want to join. There is some activity at the moment, but not enough to go for a dedicated instance.

    Also, as the other comments have shown, the bigotry of the author does not help.

  • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.comEnglish
    204·
    11 months ago

    The issue at hand is you fail to separate the fandom from the economic benefit driven to the author.

    It’s like buying Nestle because you enjoy the chocolate, despite the fact that there are respectable companies that aren’t absolute monsters that also make chocolate you could be enjoying.

    JKR is as much HP as Mark Schneide is Nestle. End of story. If you don’t support her views, find one of the millions of other wonderful works of literature to be a fan of.

  • Mario_Dies.wav@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    3115·
    11 months ago

    1. Your “separate the author from the works” is your opinion

    2. Even if we do separate them, the works themselves are brimful of problematic tropes and stereotypes

    3. I don’t want Harry Potter fans coming here, good god. I’d rather sound with a habanero-infused DS stylus than hang out with Harry Potter fans.

    • BlazeEnglish
      175·
      11 months ago

      I don’t want Harry Potter fans coming here, good god. I’d rather sound with a habanero-infused DS stylus than hang out with Harry Potter fans.

      Hey, I’m a fan of the universe, I hope I’m still welcome here

        • BlazeEnglish
          11·
          11 months ago

          I mean, we’ve interacted with you quite a lot in the past, always in a pleasant manner, but you do you.

          • BlazeEnglish
            4·
            11 months ago

            You like Star Trek, maybe that makes it even

    • Microw@lemm.eeEnglish
      83·
      11 months ago

      I don’t want Harry Potter fans coming here, good god.

      To quote you: That’s your opinion

    • ramble81@lemm.eeEnglish
      31·
      11 months ago

      Well, number 3 is an image I won’t be able to unthink….

  • TORFdot0@lemmy.worldEnglish
    193·
    11 months ago

    Most of the people on the fediverse are adults who are most likely going to join either a general instance or a themed instance for interests for adults and not for a children’s book series, especially not one with a TERFy author

    People like SpongeBob, I don’t think there is interest for a SpongeBob instance. Nevertheless if you think there is interest in it, feel free to host your own.

  • redcalcium@lemmy.instituteEnglish
    10·
    11 months ago

    It’s very obvious that the kind of people that hang around in fediverse absolutely despise Rowling. I never see any positive discourse about Harry Potter here. Even discussions about the game are generally negative.

  • Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    177·
    11 months ago

    There was one, but as you can see, there isn’t much of an interest in the works of bigots

  • Knitwear@lemmy.worldEnglish
    102·
    11 months ago

    “separate creator from the art” only works when the creator has passed and no longer benefits from celebrating the art. Arguably not even then.

  • rglullis@communick.newsEnglish
    7·
    11 months ago

    Why does it have to be a whole instance? Why not just create a community for it and start posting content you find interesting?

    • Kayn@dormi.zoneEnglish
      1·
      11 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.newsEnglish
        1·
        11 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.

        • BlazeEnglish
          3·
          11 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

        • Kayn@dormi.zoneEnglish
          1·
          11 months ago

          Waiting for a conflict to arise just leaves you with a fractured community in the aftermath.

          • rglullis@communick.newsEnglish
            2·
            11 months ago

            In the aftermath of what? The community hasn’t even formed and you are anxious about an imaginary problem?

            • Kayn@dormi.zoneEnglish
              1·
              11 months ago

              The aftermath of the conflict you referred to in your previous comment.

              • rglullis@communick.newsEnglish
                1·
                11 months ago

                Again, this would be in the chance some “conflict” happened.

                Do you think it’s reasonable that people shouldn’t even try to go for the lower-hanging fruit because they see a potential conflict that will lead to some more work?

  • Rikudou_Sage@lemmings.worldEnglish
    158·
    11 months ago

    Well, even if you ignore the author, the books are actually trash once you’re older than ~16 years (give or take a year or two). There are soooo many inconsistencies, that I could write like one full A4 page just from the top of my head (and I read it in 2007, so you bet I’ve forgotten most of it). I could write many more pages with some light Googling.