cross-posted from: https://literature.cafe/post/30387402

@threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works

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.

  • Teknevra (She/Her)@literature.cafeOPEnglish
    22·
    2 days ago

    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.

    • onlinepersona@programming.devEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      No need to do it yourself. Let someone do it for you. There’s Communickwhich can also setup a matrix server for you (in addition to Lemmy). There might be others, but I dont know of them.

      I think it’s the cost of a Netflix subscription.

      • Mark with a Z@suppo.fiEnglish
        3·
        2 days ago

        I checked out the website, but I can’t find any mention of being able to migrate away or downloading the databases. How do these managed services work?

        • Raphael@communick.newsEnglish
          5·
          2 days ago

          Hey, Communick founder here. End of last year we did the migration for ttrpg.network from K&T to our servers. There were definitely some issues in the beginning as that was the first large-ish instance in terms of community activity, but things now seems to be a lot better. To anyone willing to migrate, I can extend the same deal I offered to @eerongal@ttrpg.network: if you commit to an yearly plan, I can waive the setup fee.

          • Mark with a Z@suppo.fiEnglish
            1·
            1 day ago

            I said migrate away. I don’t know what kind of access the managed service includes. This is something that I think should be clearly stated on the website.

            • Raphael@communick.newsEnglish
              1·
              1 day ago

              Right, I misunderstood. We have daily backups and I can give access to them via SFTP, but to be honest there is no interface to do that via the website yet. It’s only recently that hetzner integrated their storage box solution to their cloud API, and I didn’t have the time (or customer pressure) to automate that yet.

      • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        66·
        2 days ago

        Hosting a harry potter instance - $10/mo (I have no idea how much proprietary shit costs)

        Supporting fascism - PRICELESS!