Hey everyone. What seems to have been established itself as the main anime related instance, ani.social, has been defederated from Lemmy.ml.

I am wondering if it would be better to move this community over here so I will copy my posts from lemmy.ml here in ani.social for a while as well and then see where more engagement is happening. Since I create the posts by hand (I can’t program a bot) I don’t want to have this a permanent solution, but I’ll give it at least a few months or until it’s clear where the greener pastures are.

So basically:

  1. There is a new LightNovel community on ani.social now
  2. You can all vote where the permanent home should be by using whichever you like better.
  • Lvxferre@ani.socialEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    I heavily recommend, for anyone moderating communities in lemmy.ml, to migrate their communities to other instances. Otherwise you’re exposing the other users of your comm(s) to rogue admins. The administration of lemmy.ml is garbage, and it engages on

    • witch hunting
    • enforcement of hidden rules
    • censorship strictu sensu
    • blatant lack of transparency
    • taking the userbase as gullible sheep to be herded
    • trigger-happiness

    Also, from my experience migrating a linguistics community from lemmy.ml to mander.xyz, I genuinely believe that communities thrive way more if they’re in suitable instances. I think that you described it rather well when you said that “it feels like I’m screaming into the void over there”.

  • wjs018@ani.socialEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    You do a great job with the lightnovels community over on ml. I used to be more active over there, but since starting up communities here, just haven’t had the time to check back in on ml as often.

    I still think back to how I had initially recommended Villainess Level 99 and then you hated it. Ever since then, I have been a bit more cautious in my praise for the series. It’s that kind of discourse that helps us appreciate other POVs and I hope to be able to contribute more to this community.

    Welcome to the instance (provisionally)!

    Edit: adding it to the sidebars for !anime@ani.social and !manga@ani.social

    • ludrol@bookwormstory.socialEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I still think back to how…

      I think that is the point of this community. To read stuff collectively and try to find the 1% that is great. So if you think we all should share what we read and think about them and recommend the best ones.

      For me the 1% is The conqueror from a dying kingdom the cliff hanger at the end of volume 6 still kills me inside

    • NineSwords@ani.socialOPMEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I had never any contact with the .ml admins, and they never interacted with the LN community over there in any form. I obviously had no contact with the admins over here as well in the few hours that I’m here. So I am personally 100% indifferent to the admins on either instance.

      What made me create the community here is that it feels like I’m screaming into the void over there. There has been a little uptick in the last month or so in replies to the weekly posts, but the community has never reached the point where it stopped being carried by me alone. Someone pointed out that ani.social got defederated so I wonder simply if the lightnovel community is a better fit over here. Especially if it turns out that there is some overlap / migration that would mean that I wouldn’t need to just “abandon” the existing users. I would kinda feel bad to just up and leave.

          • NineSwords@ani.socialOPMEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            Honestly, if they decide to ban the post, community or me because of this, it would only turn something that isn’t an easy decision for me to make, into something that is.

            • Lvxferre@ani.socialEnglish
              3·
              1 year ago

              If the post links ani.social, they’ll likely just remove it at first. Then if you insist on emigrating the comm they’ll look for another excuse to get rid of you. Then one of the admins will say “I’ve read a few pages of a LN once! So we should totally keep a LN community in a FLOSS+privacy instance! lol.” and recruit new mods without explaining what happened with you.

              That’s basically what happened in !anime@lemmy.ml.

      • I2jgwh0hYtxrCZQMEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Regarding user activity -

        I think it’s just finding the right instance. I think a anime / LN / Manga specific instance like this will do much better than a general instance.

        I found that community by accident from clicking through lots of links. Then I lurked for a bit before trying to be active and comment on each weekly post.

        I find the weekly releases very useful, I haven’t found anywhere else to get that information easily.

        Side note - Let me know if you want to look at some automation. I am not great and haven’t worked with Lemmy before but I have some experience with automating work.

        • NineSwords@ani.socialOPMEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          Well, just comparing the replies to this post between instances paints a clear picture. And that’s without me advertising the community at all apart from a sticky on .ml. I did not expect anyone to find this community on this instance for weeks without me going around other related communities on a proselytizing spree. I assume @wjs018 linking in the sidebar of !anime@ani.social and !manga@ani.social has helped a lot here.

          I would be grateful if there could be a automated post every week. It’s not much work to do them manually but still something I have to do and schedule.