Update time! I'll put the tl;dr up front:
- The bot can now include links to related communities on the fediverse for shows that it makes posts for. So, please share with me the related communities that should be included in rikka's posts.
- Sequential episode discussion threads made by rikka should no longer show up as crossposts.
- There is a discord server here that @NineSwords@ani.social is nice enough to run and extend an invitation to the rest of the community.
Bot Updates
There are two main things that I have recently added our resident bot, @rikka@ani.social:
Inclusion of Related Communities
rikka can now include links in her posts that link out to other fediverse communities that are relevant to the show/movie that the post is about. A recent example is that The Apothecary Diaries episode discussion posts now include a link to !theapothecarydiaries@ani.social in the body of the post. Neat! Go forth and spread activity through the fediverse!
The catch with this is that I need to manually add the related communities for each show. I am but one man and cannot survey the entire fediverse for active communities. So, this is a call to action from me to you. If there is an actively airing show and it has an active community somewhere on the fediverse, please let me know and I can make sure it is linked in rikka's posts. At the end of this post I have included a table of the communities I have added so far.
Crosspost Deduplication
Sequential episode posts should no longer show up as crossposts. With the way that certain fediverse software platforms and apps handle crossposts, it was leading to cases where the comments from multiple episodes' posts were being merged together. This is obviously not great for preventing spoilers or even having a coherent discussion. This specifically came to my attention after Piefed made some updates to do this.
However, one of the Piefed devs also pointed me in the direction of the solution. By appending unused url parameters onto the end of the image url that rikka posts with, lemmy and other software will no longer detect the posts as crossposts. So, hopefully this one is solved going forward.
Discord Server
I am on record as never wanting to be in the position of moderating a real-time chatroom like Discord. However, for those of you that are interested in such a place, @NineSwords@ani.social has made one. It was originally made for just the !lightnovels@ani.social community, but they have created channels with topics for anime, manga, games, etc., and is more than happy to help facilitate other rooms if there is demand.
Come on over and check it out! I am hanging out over there! Also, I swear that I will never be a mod on discord, so if you want to complain about me, there is nothing I can do about it!
Reference Table of Related Communities for Spring 2025
Please let me know if there are more out there that I can include!
So, as a moderator for !manga@ani.social, I have been trying to keep tabs on how this has been developing over on reddit (especially /r/manga).
I believe that if a publisher were to request content or posts to be removed, it would most likely be directed to the instance admin. In my community's case, that would be @hitagi@ani.social. It would then be up to them whether to or how to remove the content. If it isn't a formal DMCA or if they are in a jurisdiction not bound by the DMCA, then they could always choose not to take action. If they did decide to remove the content, then the next decision facing them would be how to remove it.
One option would be to "remove" it (no different than a community moderator removing things like spam). This action would federate out to other lemmy servers and remove it there as well. The other option that is available to instance admins is to "purge" it. This removes the content from the local server, but does not federate that removal out to other instances. So, the offending content would still be available to the rest of the fediverse since it was federated out and the publisher would have to go play whack-a-mole with every instance out there. The purge option would definitely be the malicious compliance route.