Now that the subreddit r/anime is permanently dark until reddit changed its mind on their API decision, is this where the community is migrating to?
Yes, we’re the biggest anime community currently on the Fediverse… but 3K subscribers is still a far cry from 7M+. Admittedly, that’s an apples-to-oranges comparison since the subreddit has 10+ years of accumulated dead users boosting their stats, but 3 orders of magnitude is nevertheless a stark gap.
More importantly: there’s a decently large group of individuals who can be found participating in almost every single /r/anime discussion thread – people who go back years in the community – such as LeonKevlar and ShimmeringSky. If you frequented the subreddit, you’ve probably talked to them at some point and recognize their presence. IMO: without converting pillars like them, this place cannot claim to be the direct successor to /r/anime.
FWIW: we don’t need to be successors. Even if the subreddit dwarfs us, we’re still a top-50 Lemmy community in terms of subscribers (source). We’re big enough to have good discussion threads and those will be the engine of our long-term success. Everything else will come with time if we can just keep people coming back to talk about the things that they love watching.
It doesn’t really matter if the subreddit joins us or ignores us, because the subreddit never held a monopoly on anime discussion in the first place (e.g.: AnimeCorner Community, MAL Forums).
LOL no. The mods weren’t taking this seriously, they were even posting on /r/anime while it was locked for everybody else. What a farce this whole blackout was.
It’s where I migrated to. Idk how many others will.
Well some of us. There are a few other anime communities here, so search them out and sub to them all.
I wish. I think most people migrated to discord. Also FYI at this point it’s set to reopen next week.
I saw a post saying “r/anime is joining the fight”. The picture that went along with it was says the protest is going to keep going until reddit changed their minds.
I guess that was just a general picture.
r/anime is not permanently dark, I don’t know where you saw that. It’s possible it could go dark permanently but the current status is that they will reopen the sub on June 19. You can check the status here: https://r-anime.moe/
Good. I don’t want to support reddit, but it would suck to lose that big community.
the community here is growing fast, already 604 subscribers
Subscriber counts are per-instance, if you open this community on lemmy.ml you’ll see over 3k subscribers. However, you’ll also see some missing or different posts and comments because the federation between instances is pretty wonky at the moment.
All that to say: There are quite a lot of people here already, but there are still some wrinkles to iron out before substantial parts of /r/anime could migrate here. I’d be happy if they eventually did though.
Maybe they host a own instance…
Given all their automations, I reckon they could pull it off.
Its not that hard either, at least technically speaking.
My thinking was: Setting up the software and keeping it running when a horde of users storm it (exhausting CPU and IO) are different things. Software (in general) sometimes behaves very strange at scale. I haven’t seen the source of Lemmy, and given that it’s written in Rust makes me feel positive about it, but strange things will(!) happen, and then you need professionals.
