I previously posted this topic on the main Star Wars community, but it was removed for being too meta. Which is fair enough but it does leave is in a Catch 22 situation as you can’t exactly get a SW instance started if you can’t discuss starting one. Fortunately, @blaze@lemm.ee was kind enough to suggest this instance would be a good venue for such discussions, so here we are.

So here’s the original post with additional thoughts arising from the discussion or subsequent pondering:

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In a Fediverse, far far away…

I have been involved in a few discussions about how to help the Fediverse grow and diversify and one thing I feel is key is to have more specific instances rather than large general purposes ones. It helps people when they are signing up and can help give communities a home. I know because I signed up with feddit.uk, helped grow the place and am now part of the Admin team.

Or, to cut a long story short, should there be a Star Wars Lemmy instance? Today seems the perfect time to open the discussion.

After all, there are other focused instances like:

  • startrek.website
  • sffa.community
  • literature.cafe
  • ttrpg.network
  • adultswim.fan
  • dormi.zone
  • futurology.today
  • lemmy.radio
  • hobbit.world

Could move across existing communities:

[edit: see more comprehensive list below]

And there are a lot of potential others:

  • A community per film and show
  • SW Books - with potential to spin-off popular and long-running series
  • SW Comics
  • SW Board Games
  • SW Video Games
  • SW Cosplay
  • SW Helmets
  • SW Lightsabers
  • SW Galaxy of Heroes
  • The Empire Did Nothing Wrong

Possible names? A lot of obvious ones will have been scooped up or you risk copyright infringement, but how about:

  • Fediverse’s Edge

[edit: I found a discussion on the old place, about starting a Star Wars Mastodon instance and you could share resources and expertise by Hosting them on the same server. Which led me to suggest Fediverse’s Edge as the umbrella domain with the Mastodon instance at Tootooine and thr Lemmy one at something like Lemmandalore). If you were doing this then you could also include an instance of BookWyrm, Galactic Library?, that would bring the Star Wars novels and comics front and centre. It could be a good example for others thinking of setting up instances for transmedia franchises like this - a Marvel part of the Fediverse, for example. It would really help people sign up to a chunk of the Fediverse as it is either all in one place or you could direct people elsewhere, to, say, a Pixelfed instance dedicated to toy photography.

Other name suggestions:

  • tattooine.social
  • dagobah.space
  • hoth.books
  • coruscant.forum
  • bespin.io
  • thesenate.domain
  • thesenate.im
  • unknownregion ]

May the FOSS be with you.

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Those who contributed to that previous thread are: @Blaze@reddthat.com @OpenStars@discuss.online @inlandempire@jlai.lu @Statick@programming.dev @wjrii@lemmy.world @slazer2au@lemmy.world

And some who have been engaged in Star Wars instance discussion since (why I am bumping this post up my to-do list: @sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al @ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world ]

I also had a second post removed that listed all the Star Wars communities and it was relevant for this discussion to show the breadth of existing Star Wars discussion on here:

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As a lot haven’t federated over to my instance I went digging, so you may as well have the list:

Star Wars:

Misc:

TV and film:

Games:

[edit: I’ve since started !starwarshunters@lemmy.zip ]

NSFW:

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Those who contributed to this thread: @Blaze@reddthat.com

  • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.ukOPEnglish
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    6 months ago

    The BEST usage of the concept of Lemmy isn’t even being used right now, and thats niche interest instances.

    I have another post drafted to go alongside this one about why we need more specific instances. I think it’s going to be key to Lemmy’s growth and, if we look at the more.mature ecosystem over with Mastodon, it’s inevitable. We just need to give it a helping hand and ensure those starting instances get the help the need (another thread I am drafting about starting your own instance).

    Still though, the idea of "this is THE star wars instance, with only star wars sublemmys allowed, WOULD attract a more active userbase among all the different star wars topics. From there you COULD have various niche star wars sublemmys. You could have one JUST for podracing. You could have one JUST about the politics of star wars. You could have one JUST for users to role play in the star wars universe. You could have one for fan written star wars stories. Hell you could even have an NSFW section for star wars universe sexy things. Maybe cosplays, or drawings.

    It may also be where the LemmyBB frontend becomes important as it looks like an old school forum (specifically phpBB) and you can sort the communities into groups - so all the TV show communities go in one, the films in another, cosplay in it’s own one (so you could cover clothing, armour, weapons, etc), games, books, comics, etc.

    Point is, I’ve seen the original “part 4” movie. The one that got released first. I’ve also seen “part 1” released in 1999.

    You should definitely give Rogue One and Andor a go.