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  • Blaze@reddthat.comEnglish
    404·
    2 years ago

    Well, as always I’ll recommend our small existing community !harrypotter@literature.cafe

    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
    173·
    2 years ago

    Hey, Good Luck with your endeavors. Beware of mob brigading and “canceling” you. There is already !harrypotter@literature.cafe 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.

  • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    5·
    3 months ago

    Disappointing to hear, but understandable, and not unexpected.

    Thank you @blueberry@diagonlemmy.social, for creating and hosting this server over the past year. I have very much enjoyed my time here.

    Thank you for giving us two months notice. I have great respect for your transparency and humility.

    All the best in your future endeavours! Hope to see you elsewhere on the Fediverse from time to time. Perhaps on !harrypotter@literature.cafe? :)

  • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3·
    3 months ago

    Thanks, that was fast!

    If you have time, you might want to change the format of the links in the sidebar to “instance agnostic” (e.g. !harrypotter@literature.cafe instead of https://literature.cafe/c/harrypotter), but it’s not critical.

    For the display names, you may want to prepend “[Closed]” instead of appending it. This way, for interfaces where the name may be truncated due to length, it will still be obvious that the community is closed. Additionally, community names starting with “[” will appear in a separate section of an alphabetized list, setting them apart from the rest of the communities. Again, not critical.

    Thanks again for all your help today, and over the past year. Wishing you all the best!

  • Blaze (he/him)@feddit.orgEnglish
    2·
    1 year 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 !harrypotter@literature.cafe ). 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
    42·
    2 months ago

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

    Not sure about !jkrowling@lemmy.blahaj.zone as Blahaj admin’s previously stated they wouldn’t be comfortable hosting a JKR community, but worst case scenario even with just !harrypotter@literature.cafe and !harrypotter@lemmy.zip 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·
    3 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 !harrypotter@literature.cafe and !jkisabigot@literature.cafe - 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.