1. Harry Potter Fandoms will be a part of the Fediverse one way or the other. It’s better to shape this development rather than being overwhelmed by it.
  2. Harry Potter Fandoms are a huge opportunity for the Fediverse. Look at what the collaboration of Lego and Disney brought to Fortnite. People want to spend time in places, in which they feel familiar and welcomed. I’m not saying collaborating with big companies here, what I’m saying is: the Fediverse needs to be filled with life and we have to use that opportunity first, before others do.
  3. Don’t throw the opinions of J.K. Rowling and its fandom in one bucket. It’s one of the biggest in the world, there is a broad range of opinions and people.
  4. The Fediverse needs more projects that immediately make sense to people. Projects that you tell a person about, and they say: “Oh, yeah, that makes sense.” Mastodon in comparison to Twitter was such a thing: its billionaire proof. Everybody gets why that’s a good thing. A better, more open place to build Harry Potter fan sites could be another.
  5. The project (including other places like this that may follow) could also become another attractive place on the Fediverse for the open-source community. Who wouldn’t be excited to help build the world of Harry Potter?

All of this is of course up for discussion. I’m a very stubborn person but I’m also able to listen ;)

Edit: I removed “queer friendly” from the description. Its not a claim that I can fully uphold anyways. Instead, it has a no tolerancy policy against transphobia, which is more clear and probably easier to enforce.

Here is the link: https://diagonlemmy.social

  • Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    1428·
    9 months ago

    When you say “queer friendly”, are you, the admin of the instance, gender diverse and thus directly impacted by Rowling’s transphobia? Because that’s the only voice that I’m open to hearing “queer friendly” from when it comes to Potter and Rowling.

    If you’re not impacted by her bigotry, you have no place claiming that it’s queer friendly, whilst actively refusing to engage with the reality of her transphobia.

    • Kawawete@reddeet.comEnglish
      314·
      9 months ago

      So you have to be part of the queer movement to be queer friendly ? Please go gatekeep something else

      • macniel@feddit.deEnglish
        411·
        9 months ago

        It’s easier to determine if something is queer friendly or not. If you are just an outsider how can you accurately say what’s queer friendly?

        • berg@lemm.eeEnglish
          124·
          9 months ago

          So if I’m not both a woman and a man I can’t see sexism? That’s an easy way out of responsibility.

        • Kawawete@reddeet.comEnglish
          62·
          9 months ago

          It’s extremly easy to determine if something is “queer friendly” or not, event if you’re not a queer yourself. By your flawless logic, I should not be able to discern the presence of racism in a KKK meeting because I’m not black lol.

    • blue@diagonlemmy@diagonlemmy.socialOPEnglish
      132·
      9 months ago

      No, I’m not. With “queer friendly” I wanted to signal my good intentions here. I don’t want to call it a safe space, because I’m not able and also not willing to provide this. Possibly in the future there will be other H.P. instances that are also safe® spaces.

      So yeah, “queer friendly” is more like a ideal/commitment that I want to try to hold rather than a promise/claim. Or that what was I tried to do here.

      If you have a different phrase that could reflect this more accuratly, I will be happy to consider it.

    • Herbal Gamer@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      117·
      9 months ago

      Their rules post also doesn’t say anything about transphobic content whatsoever they see the fandom as not inherently sharing the creators views

      • Chozo@kbin.social
        131·
        9 months ago

        Why lie about something that we all can easily verify for ourselves?

        Rule 1: Before using the website, remember you will be interacting with actual, real people and communities. DiagonLemmy.Social is not a place for you to attack other groups of people. Every one of our users has a right to browse and interact with the website and all of its contents free of treatment such as harassment, bullying, racism, antisemitism, discrimination, transphobia, hate speech, violation of privacy or threats of violence.

        https://diagonlemmy.social/post/108

        • Herbal Gamer@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          25·
          9 months ago

          Ah yeah the one line, you’re right.

          What I should’ve said is that I’d expect something more substantial, distancing the community from Rowlings stance.

          edit: I’ve changed it to clarify.

          • Chozo@kbin.social
            17·
            9 months ago

            “The rule isn’t there!”

            “Yes it is.”

            “Okay, but now the rule should be something more that I just now decided on.”

            Like, my guy… It’s a community for people who want to discuss a story about wizards and magic. What do they need to do to score with these shifting goalposts, take a blood pact denouncing Rowling? They already said no transphobic content is allowed. That already covers it.

            • Herbal Gamer@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              51·
              9 months ago

              Yeah no you’re right, I was wrong. It seemed like they would’ve made a bigger deal about it considering the title of this post.