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Comment on Diagon Lemmy - A Queer-friendly, Harry Potter-themed Lemmy Server is now live (before you block me instantly, please hear me out)

cosmic_slate@dmv.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Don’t let the comments here discourage you. A lot of people on Lemmy like finding reasons to get mad at the world.

You’re not hosting a Tucker Carlson server or anything, you’re hosting a server for a very popular and sentimental franchise.

Have fun with it, hopefully it takes off. If it doesn’t, then hey you tried.

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Pratai@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

You’re not hosting a Tucker Carlson server to praise alt-right values

They may as well, to the kids on lemmy, they’re the exact same thing. There’s absolutely no nuance here at all. The hive-mind dictates what governs the outrage.

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- cosmic_slate@dmv.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Oh how I miss the free time I had in high school.
  
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SasquatchBanana@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
When I was growing up, a lot of queer kids loved HP. There is a literal potion in the books that completely changes you to another person, including sex. I know a lot of millenial trans people who were able to come out referencing that potion and scene and how they could relate or wish they had that potion.

Imo, the books aren’t that good. For elementary and middle schoolers, sure, but I don’t think JK Rowling is a good author or world builder. I believe the IP/franchise relied heavily on the audience and Rowling backstabbed her queer fans. The same goes for the new game. It’s more open world drivel and I think the only way it got this big is because idiots kept talking about it.

With all of that said, having a community on lemmy that is about Harry Potter, and they are clearly pro-trans/queer, leftists/progressives, and ban any alt-right shitters then that is very good and powerful. It’s so powerful to get more HP fans in more leftist spaces so they can incept those ideas.

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- blueberry@diagonlemmy.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  It’s so powerful to get more HP fans in more leftist spaces so they can incept those ideas.
  
  That could prove to be harder than expected. I tried to reach out to r/harrypotter but they won’t let me put an advertisement post there :( Turns out that not so surprisingly, these fansites are kind of closed up themselves and until they open themselves up to AP, too, they will be very reluctant to any fediverse clones of them …
  
  I’m now trying to reach out to other fansites. Let’s see.
  
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  - SasquatchBanana@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    That’s reddit. They don’t want their users to bleed and the mods that are left are scabs. It will be similar with other sites and it can feel like spam. The best thing you can do is populate the lemmy with HP info and hope it kicks off one day
    
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