Well, as always I’ll recommend our small existing community !harrypotter@literature.cafe

Literature.cafe is a lovely instance, Gabe the admin is a very nice person.

Good luck with your instance, I’ll probably visit

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.

Hey, Good Luck with your endeavors. Beware of mob brigading and “canceling” you. There is already !harrypotter@literature.cafe Make sure you have at least one or two moderators with additional technical sysadmin that will keep the instance up.

I think the biggest challenge at the start will be keeping community alive. I know from experience that if you are the only person posting it is disheartening, and it leads to very fast burnout.

direct comm subscribe link !harrypotter@literature.cafe

fyi, Mbin now can utilize the standard ! format

There is a debate with what to do with !harrypotter@literature.cafe . It’s not that clear, I understand both sides.

Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !harrypotter@literature.cafe

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

You should just need to write !harrypotter@literature.cafe in the comment box, and the link is generated automatically. Should work in both Lemmy and kbin at least, not sure about mbin but would make sense that it works there as well. :)

Yeah well i don’t think they should lock that community if the mod doesn’t want it to be locked. Do you really think that would be right? Should i go and demand the solarpunk bird community to be locked because world’s is more active? I think it’d be pretty bad if they did, not that i think they would.

It’s up to debate, but to me if the mod isn’t active for the community (e.g. posting regularly), they should ask for someone else to take up that role. And if nobody wants the role, and there is another active community to redirect too, it could be nice to lock the inactive community down and redirect to the active one.

I mod a few inactive communities (such as !harrypotter@literature.cafe ). If someone came to me and said “hey, we’ve been trying to get our own HP community active, you already have some people on yours, would you mind locking yours down as you don’t seem to actively mod it, and redirect to ours?” I would definitely do it.

Also i don’t think that user you called out is part of world’s staff.

They are not, but at the same time the LW rules still allow them to namesquat that community.

The paradox of choice is something you have deal with in the fediverse i guess, starts at choosing a server. I don’t think it should be that big of a deal, as long as communities can be found from the instances internal search.

For the instance, as long as you take the big ones (LW, lemm.ee, SJW, dbzer0, lemmy.ca, etc.), your experience will indeed be the same. To know which community to post too, this is a different story, and I’ve seen a lot of people telling me “I stay on Reddit because when I when to post about a topic, there’s a clear community where to. On Lemmy, there are two or three active communities competing for the same topic, and it’s just confusing”. Of course we should keep different communities for different folks (no one would consider merging lemmy.ml communities with LW’s), but we can also reduce the confusion for a few core topics that can help new joiners to get settled

I still don’t think they keep us from being upgraded to be mean.

They are not, but as I said earlier, LW is so large than they have to be extra cautious with their updates. If they would be 20% of the total Lemmy population, and 30 of the top 100 communities compared to now, they would probably be more at ease with “me can mess up a bit, it’s okay”. Having them as a cornerstone of the whole platform puts them constantly under the spotlight.

I think images are important and on diagonlemmy, I dont want to try to add images and break stuff.

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.

I’ve gone on before on how the idea of “consolidating” can be a problem because it leads to centralization. We already have a problem with instances like lemmy.world being too centralizing and taking people off a community and tossing them into another one with a different culture, or even worse into one where they are defederated from their instance, is not going to solve the issue.

And I want to emphasize the point about culture. All those HP communities “might” be the same but they have every right to be different, and to conduct themselves differently, in various ways. !harrypotter@literature.cafe has one focus but !harrypotter@feddit.nl could have different focus or even be able to discuss subjects that literature.cafe can’t because of jurisdiction. We could even have !harrypotter@nsfw.it (for example) and certainly that can’t be clearly merged with either of the above.

So, IMO, any “solution” for the idea of consolidation has to allow instances and communities to exist as they are, and does not have to norm that content that can be posted to one community has to be valid for all communities. Else, we’re returning to the Reddit and the Facebook that we left.