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I'm creating a new, Harry Potter-themed Community - anybody interested in helping to moderating it? (lemmy.world)

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My current instance, diagonlemmy.social has no images, which is not great. So I'm thinking about creating an instance with a Harry Potter meme community.

What do you think?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Cool name, I liked diagonlemmy too, they both sound good!

I think the HP fandom isn't that active anymore, after 15 years people probably moved on, and it's not like there is that much interesting new content being created

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

the HP fandom isn’t that active anymore

I think it only seems this way due to the small size of the fediverse. If you dip into The Site Which Must Not Be Named, r/harrypotter and r/HarryPotterMemes still get dozens of posts per day. The memes are endless, and there's a new TV series coming out in the next couple years. The HP fandom is definitely still active, and if we want to grow the fediverse (#fedigrow), we can definitely benefit from this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

The Site Which Must Not Be Named, r/harrypotter and r/HarryPotterMemes still get dozens of posts per day.

How much of those are reposts? I go to /r/HarryPotter from time to time, the quality of the posts is quite low

But indeed, there is potential

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

Interesting, I'm a millennial myself, I always thought that later generations just dropped HP altogether

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Thanks for sharing!