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Why isn't there a Harry Potter-themed Lemmy instance yet? (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It's one of the first things I would expect from a site like this. I know that J.K. Rowlings views are very controversial to put it mildly, but:

The fandom/books are not the author
Harry Potter will become a part of the Fediverse at some point anyways - better to support it early on and shape its developing rather than having a company build a H.P. social network on top of the fediverse, which will be to our disadvantage
In terms of potential users, this could be huge for the threadiverse
We are in the Fediverse: defederation is always a possibility

Or was it just never tried before / no one wanted to yet?

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago

The issue at hand is you fail to separate the fandom from the economic benefit driven to the author.

It's like buying Nestle because you enjoy the chocolate, despite the fact that there are respectable companies that aren't absolute monsters that also make chocolate you could be enjoying.

JKR is as much HP as Mark Schneide is Nestle. End of story. If you don't support her views, find one of the millions of other wonderful works of literature to be a fan of.