Because the lemmy.ml admins have a very particular moderating style they want to extend to all of the communities on their site I guess.

Not personally using it but Misskey would seem like a good option to support as well. It's the largest Fedi platform after Mastodon going by fedidb.org.

I highly doubt anyone is actively fucking with the /c here (other than the admins). I'd simply suspect missing metadata or some shit before assuming someone is somehow covertly sabotaging multiple open content discovery services for the fediverse.

The source code for lemmyverse is public so there's no need to just speculate. I haven't checked myself but I highly doubt anime@lemmy.ml is somehow getting filtered out of the search results. Imo it's mich more likely that the community is just the victim of some bug. Maybe check again in a few days, I know lemmyverse had issues with communities disappearing when they couldn't be reached during the listing updates.

I may have an extremely warped opinion on this due to several reasons (imo mostly due to irl encounters with adult people that would put you on a watch list due to how young they look) but I think in the end it usually boils down to anime/manga just being terrible media for portraying how old a character actually is. The oldest anime character you can draw will still look significantly younger than a person you meet irl simply because the art style hides a lot of the age marks.

Edit: which is not to say that there isn't a lot of CSAM hiding, it's just imo the stuff that gets popular on SFW platforms is rarely that stuff

I see two options as to why you made that comment:

1: you just blindly believe what that admin said and have no opinion of your own, if that is the case I highly doubt a discussion is possible

2: you actually believe anime is csam in which case a discussion won't be possible either because we don't share the same definition of what csam is

As a closing note I find it hilarious that someone from hexbear of all places tries to ridicule people for trying to move to a safe space for their community

Edit: case in point against the csam claim is the fact that the instance in question got re-added to join-lemmy.org because the material that got it removed was not remotely seen as csam by the other maintaners

Kakao nuked the official Tachiyomi Extension repo because they "infringe on their copyright".

The Extension repo does not and never has offered copyrighted material, it merely facilitated access to sites that do within Tachiyomi. Essentially it was a collection of hyper specific Browsers. The repo is gone, the extensions are not (they are now in a different repo provided by a user). Tachiyomi itself allows for 3rd party repos now and everyone is mad at Kakao for making the App less usable.

I mean yeah let's try it absolutely, just doubtful it'll work.

yeah I don't think they are actively messing with the modlog. That would get them a pretty huge outrage if discovered so I think it's more likely just buggy, wouldn't be the only thing currently not working as intended.

I highly doubt 1 will work given the reaction they had initially to claims it contains csam. 2 could potentially work though, maybe they'd have to write in a disclaimer of sorts to get the admins on board. If the link is the problem and not the wording just writing the instance name without a link would also work I guess.

@N3DSdude, @Nami, @ram, @rammy What are the mods' thoughts on this idea?

Not sure, never happened to me yet. I'd guess so. I noticed with the previous discussion post because I have instance admin superpowers (jokes aside as admin I still see deleted posts even on other instances)

Not surprised in the slightest. Having a doormat DMCA policy and then not even using GitHub as a shield (like youtube-dl for example) is just asking for it. The dev response doesn't really help so I guess the App is dead. Maybe a fork will pick up the pieces but I have no trust in the main repo devs to do the right thing or work in the users interest.

It really isn't the largest though, maybe by users but certainly not by activity. For example the post about "The Boy and Heron" winning a golden globe got 9 comments on the unspeakable instance and only 2 here. From my own experience posting to both that seems to be the norm.

Regarding content removal from what I saw in the modlog the most concerning action other than preventing people from talking about alternatives was removing the Alya-san Key Visuals. So that gives you a good baseline of what will get hammered if noticed: pretty much everything.

The defederation being grounds for removal of all mention is a bit silly but not a discussion I'm willing to go into here as it would be pretty off-topic. I repsect your opinion on the matter but imo it's a very slippery slope to ban talking about something outright.

To be pretty blunt here closing down here is more a formality than anything really, even just stat wise there are slightly more active users on the other instance and the users there are apparently a lot more engaged in discussion than people here.

Yup, that was a bit of a shit show all around, made the rounds in the privacy communities as well and they were not pleased with the blatant censorship over there either. I guess stuff like this is why a lot of those people hang around dbzer0 now. To each interest an instance with fitting policies I guess.

The really sad part though is how it locks in users on lemmy.ml, you can't even really link to a safe haven because doing so is already grounds to get the post/comment removed

To add a bit more opinion: If you have an account on lemmy.ml itself and read/comment in either the Anime or Manga community I urgently recommend you migrate to a different instance. As far as I can tell the instance we shan't name here anymore for fear of admin abuse is still visible on join-lemmy.org after widespread complaints that removing an instance from there based on admin opinion alone is not exactly nice.

Best way to tell you how to find it is go to join-lemmy.org and look for an obviously anime themed instance in the "Art" category. Not sure if just saying that is grounds for removal though, depends on how trigger happy the admins here are.

Same, I can even see where his twisted logic is coming from and I'll be sure to enjoy when Ainz ultimately rips him to pieces. But the most interesting will be how the Theocracy will react to Ainz helping them get rid of the Elf King. Though I suppose with how people have reacted to Mare and Aura so far they'll just usurp the throne (unwillingly) and deliver the Theocracy with a two-front war all the same.

I think having one community be a hub is a lot better than the split setup we currently have. It makes it hard to discover content, you miss out on discussions, sometimes have to write the same comment twice and if you subscribe to both your feed gets cluttered with duplicate posts.

Not to mention ani.social being an instance dedicated to anime makes community management there a bit easier (although I'm of the opinion any medium-sized community should just get their own instance given the flexibility in management that provides and then cross-post to hub communities like /c/anime)

As someone who recently posted into both communities let me tell you this one feels a lot less active already (see ani.social vs lemmy.ml). I absolutely encourage people to switch over, community fragmentation isn't a good thing in most cases and as OP pointed out lemmy.ml has made it clear that it's not the place for Anime/Manga communities.

Overlord Volume 15: The Half-Elf Demigod Part I - Fine Volume overall, plot is slow but that is expected since this Volume is the build up Volume. World building additions were very nice as well as Ainz contemplating a bit on his friends from the Yggdrasil days. I have high expectations for Volume 16 given the build up and work so far, I can see some interesting potential plot developments ahead, such as the Theocracy being on the same side as their arch nemesis given Ainz won't see the Elf king in a favorable light (understatement of the century) once he sees how subordinates are treated in the Elf kingdom. Extremely biased since I love the series - 8/10

“… Mia and her crew ...”. Before it would have been something like “… Mia and her retinue …”

yikes, that is sure to kill any sort of immersion someone has in a story like this. Now I feel afraid of reading up this far, while I'm not an absolute fan of Mia yet I really like the world building and plot.

I actually bought some games on Steam I already owned on other launchers because while I could set them up via Lutris or the like just hitting "Play" is so much easier it's unreal. Valve is doing so much to make Linux game as comfortable as possible I don't even remotely consider buying from anyone else because there it's a pain in the ass just to get the game running once, never mind keeping it running through updates