When I can, I try to contribute to [email protected]
Thanks! The community is growing slower, but now keeps consistently ofter 1000 MAU.
I don't think I will do the migration to floonet.social after all. Instead, I want to wait until the Lemmy devs implement the admin option to disable image upload (which they want to implement in the next months). This way, you could still see images from other instances, but not upload images yourself.
Perhaps. But I at least heard the MAGA instance went away again pretty quickly.
I would say they belong to the authoritarian left.
Hello :)
A Harry Potter/Wizarding World topic would be great.
Here a first suggestion for communities:
Sadly, most of these communities are not active anymore, but they could in the future!
I think its a bit complicated. For example, there was a big buzz when all H.P. novels were included in Netflix. On the other hand many queer people literally hate J.K. Rowling. But from all people that I know who read reguarly, I would say most persons have read Harry Potter.
Do images not work? I’ve been posting images and they seem fine…
Oh, you didn't know. Yeah, its really better to use imgur for the time being on diagonlemmy. Its makeshift I know ...
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.
For me, shit.just.works took the most out of that TLD than anybody ever can ;) Sadly, floo.net is already taken but I also own floonet.world. It emphasizes the global aspect of the community.
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.
It wasn't a consistent decision :D I just thought, hey, what communities would be fun here, and created them.
It was like that from the beginning. I didn't want to deal with the image related stuff, moderation, server space, etc. But I think it has limited the growth of the instance significantly. Basically everybody that signed up for the instance never posted anything, this way it never ended up on the joinlemmy page. It feels to me like the instance is stuck because of it.
But look alone how much buzz Hogwarts legazy created. Actually, I think if the Fediverse would do it right, this could be the thing to make us mainstream.
Yes, there are many other fandoms out there, but its still popular enough, even among boomers and millenials. You need to remember we need to get them aboard too and Harry Potter could be the least common denominator here.
And for my generation, it also has a certain provoking edge to it, with which to distinct us from our "woke" milenial parents, who abandonded Harry Potter for its author.
I think images are important and on diagonlemmy, I dont want to try to add images and break stuff.
I'm not sure, I think the effort to move the community wouldnt be that hard I think. First crossposting to both, then moving to ghe other. I also think that many would come along and so the work already put in wouldnt have been wasted.
But yeah, it may be unnecessarily risky.
Oh cool.
Actually, the instance is already running: https://floonet.social/. I just haven't activated the communities yet. I don't know. I really like the idea of the floonetwork. Its like the idea of the fediverse already exists in the world of Harry Potter. I think it would be cool to bring more parts of the H.P. fandom in the fediverse, however, until now, every fansite I wrote to didn't reply.
Thanks but I'm also a bit bored of the overall design. I want to try a bit new things. But yeah, the question is whether its worth it ...
Well written, interesting article.
Really getting momentum from Reddit will be tough though. Our main advantage is that we have the rest of the Fediverse as a potential user base, and existing forum apps that also activate apub; reducing network effects. If the Fediverse has momentum, so has the threadiverse.