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  • Blaze@reddthat.comEnglish
    364·
    1 year ago

    Well, as always I’ll recommend our small existing community [email protected]

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

    Good luck with your instance, I’ll probably visit

  • ludrol@bookwormstory.socialEnglish
    162·
    1 year ago

    Hey, Good Luck with your endeavors. Beware of mob brigading and “canceling” you. There is already [email protected] 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.

  • Blaze@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    11·
    2 years ago

    There is [email protected] 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.

  • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.worksOPMEnglish
    3·
    1 month ago

    From a purely posts perspective, then yes, two communities would suffice. However, from a comments perspective, I think the middle community may still be necessary.

    Folks in [email protected] would likely not appreciate Harry Potter discussion, and folks in [email protected] would likely not appreciate JKR discussion. Keeping [email protected] open allows for the discussion of both aspects in the same thread.

  • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.worksMEnglish
    2·
    10 months ago

    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 [email protected], 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 [email protected] intended to serve? 99% of memes are image macros.

  • sab@kbin.social
    2·
    2 years ago

    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. :)

  • Blaze (he/him)@feddit.orgEnglish
    2·
    11 months ago

    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 [email protected] ). 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.

  • Blaze (he/him)@piefed.zipEnglish
    32·
    1 month ago

    Looks good to me as it allows people to grow the community they prefer.

    Not sure about [email protected] as Blahaj admin’s previously stated they wouldn’t be comfortable hosting a JKR community, but worst case scenario even with just [email protected] and [email protected] that should be enough.

    Edit: just discussed with Ada, she’s fine hosting a Rowling critical group, but wouldn’t want to host a group that supports her or her work though

  • Five@slrpnk.netEnglish
    21·
    2 months ago

    I do have moderator experience and I am interested with working with you to make communities that aren’t safe spaces for bigots. I can help you mod [email protected] and [email protected] - but I don’t support creating a separate community to direct discussion of JK Rowling away from the Harry Potter community. That places news about HP’s toxic social side effects where it is easily ignored, and makes !hp a safe space for bigots.

    I think directing JK Rowling discussion from !jkisabigot to !harrypotter and HP memes from !hp to !jkisabigot is hilarious. People who join the Fediverse and look for a Harry Potter community will probably come to !harrypotter first and experience a sorting hat of sorts. If they’re not a bigot, and they learn that actual Harry Potter literature discussion happens in !jkisabigot, and !harrypotter is for the latest news on JK Rowling’s hate campaigns, they’ll get the joke. If they endorse JK Rowling’s ideology, it will send the not so subtle message that maybe the Fediverse isn’t for them.

  • Blaze@reddthat.comEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    Hey,

    Thanks for posting this!

    There could definitely be some consolidation. I mod [email protected], the community hasn’t been that active recently, mostly I think because the Lemmy demographic may have moved on from that universe.

    The diagonlemmy seem to have gotten some traction with their memes, that’s nice to see