Awesome! Themed instances are so important for the Fediverse. I wish you all the best :)

What aren’t they joining Mastodon and Lemmy? Or even Threads?

Yes, and if called out, they say it happens for freedom of speech, which is absurd given that the richest man on earth provides the infrastructure and has a large presence on the platform himself.

Yes, and if called out, they say it happens for freedom of speech, which is absurd given that the richest man on earth provides the infrastructure, (soon) influences the legislative rules and has a large presence on the platform himself.

Damn

Thats an interesting dynamic, which also influences the choice of instance: which instance gives my posts the most initial boost.

This also results in a soft network network effect between different fedi servers: servers with a lot of reach attract a lot of people because they have a lot of reach. Its necessary that the biggest instance implements counter measures here. Lemmy.world does that by selecting the all-feed as default in the UI. Threads doesnt.

After brooding for days, I finally came up with a witty reply: LÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖPS

Problem: even with discovery, if your friends are on Threads or X, you still won’t find them on Mastodon. But its a step in the right direction.

Where can I find that option? Is it during instance-setup?

Interesting idea, thanks

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The combination with “lemmy.zip” is nice :D

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.

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 …

Although I love Piefed for the topics-idea alone.