Why would this decision require a public feedback sesh? Build it and they will come. Or they won't because they read some stuff about the author.

Be prepared to be defederated from almost immediately as it opens by people... as well, as an instance admin, I can say it is hard. Even for a small instance. As well, people are just going to downvote your instances content as soon as its posted. The only reason we have the harry potter community still on literature.cafe is because its dead and most posts to it are critique of the TERF JK Rowling and the series, if it was positive content we'd likely have to delete it.

What's interesting about this, is you post it as if it's a question, and despite getting an almost universal "Fuck no" as the answer to the question, you're just arguing that we should do it.

If you want to do it, do it. But stop looking for validation for it. You're asking for approval to celebrate and recognise someone who actively targets and harms trans people. You're not going to get that approval. So either take that as the answer, or stop pretending it was ever a question.

Sure, it could be good. However...

• Who is going to host it?
• Who is going to spend all that effort building the community?

no 🤮

Who is "we"? If you want to do it, no one is stopping you.

As long as it’s okay to criticize homophobia and transphobia JK Rowling spews, I say go for it.

I find it amazing that JKR pretty much gets a free pass when someone like Gaiman is so me-too-ed that people online throw out his books and trash his mostly progressive history. Just imagine the condemnation if someone suggested a Gaiman community. Weird, subjective times we live in.

No. We don't need a new instance for every mass media piece of shit. Definitely not scumbag HP.

Make an instance for Hoppers first. I hear it's actually good.

If you want to.

I think it makes sense to follow the Star Trek instance and just have local communities centered around Harry Potter while allowing federation with everything else.

I mean I can think of ip that makes more sense for its own instance. star trek comes to mind.

The Harry Potter franchise is pretty expansive, so even if this next series is a major flop, I have my doubts the series will alone be able to burn all the goodwill in the franchise, leaving plenty still to be discussed.

Also, I like the idea of forums focused on specific niches, but having seen isolated ones multiple times shrink into irrelevance, being federated should help give it a bigger life span. Also wouldn't be the first focused instance I see around. So on this point, I also defend the creation of a Harry Potter instance.

Just don't know how protective the companies involved with the Harry Potter brand are towards it, so hopefully a site that presents itself as purely a discussion forum among fans won't be stepping in anyone's toes.

And about the fediverse not liking Harry Potter as someone commented, such perception feels awfully like centralization, in this case on ideas. So another reason to have a focused forum, so people may be more comfortable enjoying and discussing what they want, instead of falling into a silence spiral to not be the perceived majority's enemies. And as you proposed, those that don't like are free to block/defederate.

And about software, might I suggest an hybrid one, so people on both threadiverse and microblog platforms may be able to interact? Dunno how Piefed fares on that front (I keep forgetting to check) and Lemmy is kinda isolated by their design philosophy.

But back on creating an instance, now that at the end I reread the other comments, it's a task, requiring resources, interest and time someone may not have. So if asking for one to be created by others is likely be a short-lived idea.

So good luck on finding anyone then.

Or maybe also you'd be interested in reading the responses to a question I made in a self-hosting community, if you want to do it yourself but don't know where to start:
https://thebrainbin.org/m/selfhosted@lemmy.world/t/1513112/What-to-study-to-be-able-to-host-a-site

While I like him as a player I feel it is better to just post to the rugby community .

@threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works

People can like and love Harry Potter without endorsing or even being aware of Rowling and her views.

The move isn’t to reject the fandom.

The move is to build the instance with explicit values — pro-trans, pro-queer, progressive moderation, zero tolerance for bigotry.

This feels like building a forum to discuss Mein Kamph, and then saying it's going to moderated with a focus on inclusion, human rights, and diversity.

With the whole HP thing, there are IMO far too many people fully separating the art and the artist. I just can't morally do that.