Harry Potter Fandoms will be a part of the Fediverse one way or the other. It’s better to shape this development rather than being overwhelmed by it.
Harry Potter Fandoms are a huge opportunity for the Fediverse. Look at what the collaboration of Lego and Disney brought to Fortnite. People want to spend time in places, in which they feel familiar and welcomed. I'm not saying collaborating with big companies here, what I'm saying is: the Fediverse needs to be filled with life and we have to use that opportunity first, before others do.
Don't throw the opinions of J.K. Rowling and its fandom in one bucket. It’s one of the biggest in the world, there is a broad range of opinions and people.
The Fediverse needs more projects that immediately make sense to people. Projects that you tell a person about, and they say: "Oh, yeah, that makes sense." Mastodon in comparison to Twitter was such a thing: its billionaire proof. Everybody gets why that's a good thing. A better, more open place to build Harry Potter fan sites could be another.
The project (including other places like this that may follow) could also become another attractive place on the Fediverse for the open-source community. Who wouldn’t be excited to help build the world of Harry Potter?

All of this is of course up for discussion. I'm a very stubborn person but I'm also able to listen ;)

Edit: I removed "queer friendly" from the description. Its not a claim that I can fully uphold anyways. Instead, it has a no tolerancy policy against transphobia, which is more clear and probably easier to enforce.

Here is the link: https://diagonlemmy.social

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[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Read it fully dammit - OP outright said "Instead, it has a no tolerancy policy against transphobia, which is more clear and probably easier to enforce."

The matter here is subjectivity. What two people consider "friendly" depends on a thousand factors; and that won't change just because they're both queer.

As such, "this is queer-friendly" is a hard promise to keep. It breaks once the first queer person says "I'm queer, and I don't consider this friendly". And since queer people are individuals, they're bound to find different things "friendly".

However, once you say "no tolerance towards transphobia", the picture changes. Transphobia exists on a discursive level; it's shit that people say that denigrates trans people. And the discourse is not something inside someone's mind, it's the stuff that is shared by people, thus far more objective.

For example, if I were to utter something transphobic, I wouldn't have room to say "well, that person there is queer, and they didn't feel offended". It's transphobic so it gets the chop.

Alternatively, think on it another way. Would you rather stumble upon a community and then realise that it's friendlier than it looks like? Or one that promises something vague, that won't hold true for your personal experience? I'd probably prefer the former, and I think that most other people - including the queer ones - are the same.