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I think it's a great time to switch things over.

All major browsers and web engines support it and anything that doesn't anymore is painfully outdated. This would offer you improved quality to storage ratios. Additionally, it would support 10bit colour which can be important with anime art.

Some recent posts that are supposed to have thumbnails have broken image icons for both thumbnail and "auto expand" image.

Some posts, thumbnails appear, but then the "auto expand" image is corrupt.

Sometimes, vice versa

e.g.

https://ani.social/post/4142945

https://ani.social/post/4102788

https://ani.social/post/4099651

https://ani.social/post/4077407

https://ani.social/post/4076700

https://ani.social/post/4064665

https://ani.social/post/4063550

https://ani.social/post/4062023

...and others...

When viewed from the web interface, with auto expand turned on, obviously.

I know some of these used to look okay before something happened.

Is this related to disabling iframes? https://ani.social/post/2612139?scrollToComments=true

Hello everyone!

I was looking for a Dragon Ball community, but couldn't find any active (https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=dragon+ball), so I was wondering if you would like to host this community on your instance?

I always prefer to ask people before creating a community on a theme-based instance :)

Ani.Social and Lemmy.World federation issues

Due to federation issues between Ani.Social and Lemmy.World caused by geographic distance, Ani.Social has been relocated from Asia to Europe.

Ani.Social was first moved to US on May 12 because EU providers like to ask for my passport and electricity bills. But even in the US, Ani.Social still could not keep up with Lemmy.World. Thankfully, there are smaller server providers in the EU that don't ask for my birth certificate so we migrated there a little over 24 hours ago.

The chart below shows Ani.Social is now on par with other servers in terms of Lemmy.World activity queue in the past 24 hours.

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Moving Ani.Social to a region closer Lemmy.World was a last resort option because I'd like to have my servers close to me and to avoid centralizing Lemmy servers in US/EU. However, because a potential fix appears to be scheduled for Lemmy v0.19.5, I felt that we really need to migrate sooner.

I apologize for not announcing the migration and the downtime(s), as I only had time to work on this a few days ago.

We will likely relocate back to Asia in the future when a fix is available.

Lost activities

Because of a problem during the migration, activities (likes, posts, comments, etc) from Ani.Social between May 12 16:31 to 17:47 (UTC) have been lost locally. They may appear in federated instances but cannot be deleted or modified from Ani.Social. This happened because of an unexpected behavior in migrating the database. I apologize for this and I'll carefully review the database restoration steps next time.

(Specifically, I first restored an earlier backup then a later backup after. For some reason, Postgres did not include the changes of the later backup.)

Video uploads

You can now upload videos that are up to 25mb in size and 7200 frames. See example below:

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The file size is modeled after Discord's file size limits when uploading files to text channels. Depending on the usage and costs, we may or may not decrease these limits.

Temporarily removing info.ani.social

info.ani.social is the documentation @koyo and I wrote a long time ago but never completed. It contains information about ani.social such as the rules, guidelines, and FAQ. The aim of the webpage was to provide new users all the information they need to navigate Ani.Social and the rest of the Fediverse.

All the important information displayed in info.ani.social has been copied to https://ani.social/legal and the sidebar. Because Ani.Social aims to be accessible and easy to use for new users, I will return the info page as soon as possible (and possibly in the form of a community wiki).

Alternative front ends

Other instances have alternative front ends for Lemmy. Some of these look modern and include new features. We have deployed Photon at https://photon.ani.social if you are interested in trying a new look for Ani.Social. Let me know what you think of Photon and other frontends that you might like.

Nyaa.Social

Did you know that when I chose a domain name for Ani.Social, I had a few other candidates? These include otaku.social, baka.social, and nyaa.social. The first two were taken and I was choosing between nyaa.social and ani.social.

I decided to use Ani.Social for an anime Lemmy server because it was direct and straight to the point. I also felt nyaa.social was more fitting for a microblogging platform.

When I have the time, I want to experiment with a few microblogging platforms or other ActivityPub software for nyaa.social. If you have suggestions, please tell me! Right now I have Misskey and Sharkey in mind.

Questions, suggestions, and feedback

If you have questions, suggestions, or other feedback, don't hesitate to comment, post, or DM!

Thank you for reading this and I hope everyone enjoys their day! :D

UPDATE (4/27): There were two reasons that affected federation between Ani.Social and Lemmy.World.

The first reason was an outgoing activity that got stuck in queue. This was resolved by manually marking that activity as successful.

The second reason was a subsea fiber cut between Europe and Asia which caused incoming activities from Lemmy.World to lag behind.

The original plan was to move Ani.Social closer to Lemmy.World this weekend but seeing the activity queue rapidly dropping over the past two days, it's unlikely this will push through. We will continue to monitor this however.

Again, thanks to @wjs018 for informing me about this and for keeping others up to date in this post's comments. Thank you MrKaplan from Lemmy.World for helping us resolve the issue!

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There are ongoing issues between incoming and outgoing activities between Ani.Social and Lemmy.World. Posts, comments, and votes from both instances are not in sync with each other.

The exact cause is to be determined. The instance may experience downtime and interruptions until further notice.

In the meantime, we suggest using an account on an instance that is federated with both Ani.Social and Lemmy.World.

Thanks to @wjs018 for informing me about this issue. Thanks also to MrKaplan from the Lemmy.World team for continuously helping us resolve this issue.

Hey there.

Post that are made to the lightnovels community (!lightnovels@ani.social) from the lemmy.world instance (for example this post https://lemmy.world/post/13768303) don’t show up here.

As a further development of this previous post https://ani.social/post/2612139 about the weird download request:

I am generally unable to save changes to my posts made in /c's that are hosted on other instances, like this one I just made to !coffee@lemmy.world

https://ani.social/post/2678587

Anyone else having that problem?

Hello,

When I visit this post https://ani.social/post/2611163 my browser downloads a random file called "master.m3u8"

I'm running firefox 115.8.0esr with the darkly-red theme for lemmy.

With this option enabled "Auto expand media".

The offending line appears to be the following: <iframe class="post-metadata-iframe" allowfullscreen="true" src="https://prod.vodvideo.cbsnews.com/cbsnews/vr/hls/2024/03/11/2317151299662/2750480_hls/master.m3u8" title="House Democrats try to force floor vote on foreign aid for Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan"></iframe>

From a security perspective, using a iframe to anything posted seems dubious?

I wanted to chat about Dune 2, but the pinned thread over at !movies@lemm.ee from 13 days ago wasn't federated to this server.

https://lemm.ee/post/25038001

I wound up replying from my lemmy.ml account as a workaround.

Newer posts from !movies@lemm.ee have been federated as normal.

In the sidebar, I see some words highlighted in green saying "Guarantor literature.cafe" and "Endorsements 2"

literature.cafe is another lemmy instance, and "guarantor" seems to be some kind of concept to do with lemmyspace the fediverse chain of trust.

Okay, I think I've found the answer: It's to do with how the fediverse makes sure servers are added using a chain of trust, and to quickly disconnect rogue/spam servers: https://dbzer0.com/blog/overseer-a-fediverse-chain-of-trust/

Hello!

I've made a simple source bot and named it Soutaku. The account is @saucechan@ani.social. It can be summoned with a mention, either by the author of a post in the post body itself, or anyone in the comments.

Consider this a beta, functionality is extremely simple so there's not a lot that can go wrong, but I've also not done much testing.

Mentions should work reliably, and make the bot respond no matter what. But Soutaku will also attempt to detect posts that do not include source or artist credit, and comment on these automatically.

Only images linked in the post URL currently work, so trying to summon the bot to find the source for images embedded in the post body or in a comment, won't work. For now.

I have whitelisted Soutaku for the following communities, feel free to contact me if you'd like any additional communities added.

• !fitmoe@lemmy.world
• !murdermoe@lemmy.world
• !fangmoe@ani.social
• !cybermoe@ani.social
• !kemonomoe@ani.social
• !midriffmoe@ani.social
• !streetmoe@ani.social
• !thiccmoe@ani.social
• !officemoe@ani.social
• !meganemoe@ani.social
• !anime_art@ani.social
• !helltaker@sopuli.xyz
• !overlord@sopuli.xyz
• !killlakill@lemmy.world
• !dungeonmeshi@ani.social

When I'm viewing community https://ani.social/c/ukraine@sopuli.xyz on my desktop browser, Firefox on Windows, with personal setting "Auto Expand Media" turned on, one particular post is asking me to download an .mp4 video from streamable.com: https://ani.social/post/1923262

After declining the download, the space for the expanded media is just blank.

This doesn't happen when viewing the same /c on .ml https://lemmy.ml/c/ukraine@sopuli.xyz

On .ml, I just get a screenshot of the video.

It's just that one post.

On other earlier and later posts of links to streamable.com videos in the same /c, I just get a screenshot.

Maybe some kind of corrupted data as that particular post was transferring over?

We will be upgrading to Lemmy v0.19.3 on 2024-01-27 09:00 UTC+8. During this time, this instance will be temporarily unavailable for approximately three hours as we perform the maintenance.

You can view the instance status updates here.

We apologize for any inconveniences.

It seems like kbin is not synchronizing with other lemmys?

I was wondering if this is intentional, or some sort of bug.

Thanks

Hi, I've noticed that there's a few communities with either very few or no posts and mod accounts that also appear abandoned. I suspect these dormant accounts may be used as spambots in the future.

We successfully upgraded to Lemmy v0.19.1! (Yay~!)

Unfortunately, you might need to login again on your Lemmy apps and front-ends.

More importantly, if you had 2FA enabled previously, you need to re-enable it again as Lemmy v0.19 has an improved 2FA implementation.

A few other notable major changes in Lemmy v0.19 include:

• Improved post ranking (scaled sort)
• User-level instance blocking
• User data export/import

You can read more about all the new changes here.

Additionally, we made a few changes to the instance that may or may not be a concern for you:

• Increased max image resolution to 4096px
• Disabled external image caching
• Migrated to object storage
• Switched email provider to MXRoute from Lark Suite

If you have any questions, feel free to ask here or create another thread at !meta@ani.social.

2023-12-21 15:41 UTC+8

Upgrade complete.

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We will be upgrading to Lemmy v0.19.1 on 2023-12-21 12:00 UTC+8. During this time, this instance will be temporarily unavailable for approximately four hours as we perform the maintenance.

You can view the instance status updates here.

We apologize for any inconveniences.

For context on the topic, please read this post.

After reaching out to the Lemmy.ml admins and Lemmy developers regarding the defederation of ani.social from Lemmy.ml and the exclusion of ani.social from join-lemmy.org, they have chosen to remain defederated from ani.social for "[containing] a lot of sexualized images and partial nudity" which goes against their rule against pornography.

However, because they have found no evidence of CSAM in ani.social, they have agreed to merge our pull request to include ani.social in join-lemmy.org.

We'd like to thank the Lemmy.ml admins and Lemmy developers for their careful consideration of our request. Although we had hoped to federate once again with Lemmy.ml, we believe they have valid reasons to remain defederated. We hope that this may be revisited in the future as Lemmy continues to evolve.

We apologize to our local users who regularly visit Lemmy.ml communities. If you wish to continue accessing Lemmy.ml communties, we suggest moving to an instance that is federated with both Lemmy.ml and ani.social.

I have found that I am unable to edit posts that I make to ani.social using the default web interface lemmy-ui. I have tried in both firefox and chrome to no avail. I can reach the edit screen and hit the save button, but then the post just reverts back to how it was prior to my trying to edit it.

To circumvent this, I have found that editing using Jerboa on mobile works. I have not tried any other mobile apps. Also, editing comments works just fine even in the web-ui.

Edit: This post seems edit-able. However, when I was trying to fix a typo in another post earlier, I couldn't edit it (and just confirmed that I still can't edit it).

As of November 7, 2023 09:23 both Lemmy.World and lemmy.dbzer0.com have federated with us again. Thank you for quickly reviewing the situation and reversing your decision.

We hope that Lemmy.ml will follow soon.

Original post:

To anyone who is not familiar with the situation, please read our previous post for context.

Please do not say anything hateful toward the concerned instances' admins.

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What happened?

A few hours ago, Lemmy.World and lemmy.dbzer0.com has defederated from ani.social, following the events of Lemmy.ml defederating from ani.social on November 3.

Lemmy.World has given a censure on Fediseer with the reason being "loli". lemmy.dbzer0.com has not given a reason for defederation as of the moment.

We disagree with anyone claiming that ani.social intentionally and knowingly hosts CSAM. We would like to remind everyone that ani.social has a content policy regarding CSAM content since day one. Specifically, our content policy states the following:

> 7. Do not submit content depicting a child (both real and virtual) engaged or involved in explicit sexual activities. A child is defined as a person who is under 18 years old; or a person, regardless of age, who is presented, depicted or portrayed as under 18 years old.

To provide some context, the Lemmy developers excluded ani.social from the recently launched join-lemmy.org redesign without any clear reason provided. My pull request to remove ani.social from the exclude-list was denied for the reason being that ani.social is "full of CSAM". Shortly after, ani.social was defederated from Lemmy.ml. The full story may be found on the previous thread.

Numerous threads have since spawned, many of which have comments state that there is no evidence of the claim that ani.social is "full of CSAM" and that the decision was unfair. These threads include:

• https://ani.social/post/863176
• https://lemmy.ml/post/7406051
• https://lemmy.world/post/7714824
• https://sh.itjust.works/post/8411770
• https://lemmy.ml/post/7437529

We respectfully ask the admins of Lemmy.World, lemmy.dbzer0.com, and Lemmy.ml to review the situation and our policies, and consider reversing your decision if there is no evidence that ani.social intentionally and knowingly hosts CSAM.

What now?

If you are a user of ani.social and wish to see content from Lemmy.World and lemmy.dbzer0.com, we kindly ask you to move to a different instance that is federated with all three instances.

If you are a user of Lemmy.World or lemmy.dbzer0.com and wish to see content from ani.social, we kindly ask you to send a request to your respective admins to reverse their decisions after reviewing the situation.

To all other Fediverse instance admins, we kindly ask you to carefully review our instance and its policies before defederating from us.

To all ani.social users, please do not forget to report content that violates our content policy.

My personal thoughts

As the admin of ani.social, I sincerely apologize to all our users regarding the defederation from three major Lemmy instances. I believe that this is my fault for not communicating our policies clearly enough. I will continue working toward a solution regarding this matter so please be patient.

Thank you for reading this, and I appreciate everyone's support.

Please do not say anything hateful to the Lemmy.ml admins or the developers. Before commenting on this thread, please read the post completely.

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We (ani.social) have been defederated from Lemmy.ml a few hours ago presumably for the reason of being "full of CSAM" which I disagree.

What happened?

The Lemmy developers recently launched the new redesigned join-lemmy.org webpage which provides information about Lemmy and a list of servers that people can join. The redesign looks great! It details a lot of new and useful stuff such as a categorized server list and mobile apps. However, I noticed that our instance (ani.social) was not in the list despite previously being there before the redesign.

After looking through the joinlemmy-site code, I discovered that ani.social was added to the "excluded" list in a commit a few weeks ago. I thought that this was a mistake so I made a pull request to remove us from the excluded list (and also to add our instance's category and language).

Unfortunately, the pull request was closed with a comment that reads "No, that is full of CSAM". The thread was locked so I couldn't reply. I tried to reach out to the developers via Matrix, politely explaining that ani.social has a content policy rule against CSAM which reads:

> 7. Do not submit content depicting a child (both real and virtual) engaged or involved in explicit sexual activities. A child is defined as a person who is under 18 years old; or a person, regardless of age, who is presented, depicted or portrayed as under 18 years old.

Unfortunately, my invitation was rejected and I did not hear back from them.

Shortly after, I discovered that Lemmy.ml had defederated from ani.social. The last post ani.social received from Lemmy.ml was just after the pull request was closed.

What does this mean?

This means that no user from ani.social can interact with communities from Lemmy.ml and vice versa. This affects those who subscribe to communities from that instance.

This also affects the anime community on Lemmy as a whole because the biggest anime discussion community resides on Lemmy.ml (!anime@lemmy.ml) in which their episode discussion bot, @shinobu@ani.social, is hosted here. It's very concerning that as an anime-themed instance, we're now completely disconnected from this community and other related communities.

This also affects ani.social in the long run as our exclusion from the join-lemmy.org webpage will reduce our visibility. The exclusion from join-lemmy.org and defederation from Lemmy.ml may also prompt other instance admins to defederate from us. Generally, ani.social will be seen in a very bad light.

As the admin of ani.social, I genuinely feel heartbroken after what had happened. Not only do I feel like I'm doing a poor job of building ani.social but I also feel like I've disrespected the work of the Lemmy developers. I really apologize to those who are affected by this. I hope that this is just a misunderstanding and I will do my best to resolve this problem.

I noticed on my Gura post the image became rather compressed. Since this is an anime themed group, there might be interest in avoiding that? If I'm mistaken my apologies.

https://ani.social/post/616511

2023-09-30 16:19

Upgrade complete.

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We will be upgrading to Lemmy v0.18.5 on 2023-09-30 16:00 CST. During this time, this instance will be temporarily unavailable for approximately two hours as we perform the maintenance.

You can view the instance status updates here.

We apologize for any inconveniences.

2023-09-17 18:53 CST Update:

The server maintenance is complete.

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Original message:

We will be conducting general server maintenance on 2023-09-17 18:00 CST. During this time, this instance will be temporarily unavailable for approximately two hours as we perform the maintenance.

You can view the instance status updates here.

We apologize for any inconveniences.

Upgrade complete. This message will be pinned for three days. If you run into any issues, please send us an email or leave a comment in this thread.

Thanks for being patient!

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We will be upgrading to Lemmy v0.18.4 on August 9 0900 UTC. During this time, this instance will be temporarily unavailable for approximately one hour as we perform the upgrade.

You can view the instance status updates here.

Thank you!

We have upgraded to Lemmy v0.18.3! You can view all the changes here.

If you encounter any issues, please send us an email or leave a comment in this thread. Thank you!

P.S. We've had so many new users come over the past weeks. Welcome to AniSocial!

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This announcement will be pinned for seven (3) days since the initial posting.

We will be upgrading to Lemmy v0.18.3 on July 28 4PM UTC. During this time, this instance will be temporarily unavailable for approximately one hour as we perform the upgrade.

You can view the instance status updates here: https://status.ani.social

Thank you!

Was wondering if I could just get some help with the searching communities on this instance. I'm trying to look at other communities like NBA@lemmy.world. It doesn't seem to show up in the search bar so when I try to modify the URL to take me to the community, this error shows up. It's a bit strange since lemmy.world is federated.

We've received a few messages lately from people who got locked out of their accounts after enabling 2FA and not setting up the authenticator properly. To anyone else who got locked out because of this, you can send us an email at help@ani.social with the same email address you used to register. We'll remove 2FA from your account so you can set it up again.

There is an open issue about it on GitHub.

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Note: This post will be pinned until the 2FA issue has been resolved and until the 2FA implementation has been improved.

We have upgraded to the latest stable version of Lemmy! You can view all the changes in the announcement page.

An important note for this instance:

We are now using ubergeek77's multiarch Docker image (thank you!). Prior to this, we were using masquernya's build script to build our own images which usually took a while. If you encounter any issues while using or interacting with AniSocial, please let us know in this thread or send us an email to help@ani.social.

P.S. We received a lot of new registrations over the past week. Welcome to AniSocial! We hope you enjoy your stay here!

^{This announcement will be pinned for seven (7) days since the initial posting.}

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this is a thread to test out random lemmy features