It’s one of the first things I would expect from a site like this. I know that J.K. Rowlings views are very controversial to put it mildly, but:

  1. The fandom/books are not the author
  2. Harry Potter will become a part of the Fediverse at some point anyways - better to support it early on and shape its developing rather than having a company build a H.P. social network on top of the fediverse, which will be to our disadvantage
  3. In terms of potential users, this could be huge for the threadiverse
  4. We are in the Fediverse: defederation is always a possibility

Or was it just never tried before / no one wanted to yet?

  • @rglullisA
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    75 months ago

    Why does it have to be a whole instance? Why not just create a community for it and start posting content you find interesting?

    • Kayn
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      15 months ago

      There are legitimate reasons for creating an entire instance for a specific fandom. Independence from other instances and their federation decisions is a big one.

      • @rglullisA
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        5 months ago

        Sure, but it seems like that the “need” for independence would come only after the community is already established and some type of conflict came up that made it impossible for them to stay in any of the other already-existing instances.

        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.

          • @rglullisA
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            45 months ago

            Oh, if the community exists already even better.

        • Kayn
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          15 months ago

          Waiting for a conflict to arise just leaves you with a fractured community in the aftermath.

          • @rglullisA
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            25 months ago

            In the aftermath of what? The community hasn’t even formed and you are anxious about an imaginary problem?

            • Kayn
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              15 months ago

              The aftermath of the conflict you referred to in your previous comment.

              • @rglullisA
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                15 months ago

                Again, this would be in the chance some “conflict” happened.

                Do you think it’s reasonable that people shouldn’t even try to go for the lower-hanging fruit because they see a potential conflict that will lead to some more work?