Please do not say anything hateful to the Lemmy.ml [http://Lemmy.ml] admins or
the developers. Before commenting on this thread, please read the post
completely. — We (ani.social) have been defederated from Lemmy.ml
[http://Lemmy.ml] a few hours ago presumably for the reason of being “full of
CSAM” ...
Those of you that have your account on lemmy.ml may want to consider moving to another instance if you still want to be able to access ani.social.
Unverifiable, vague claims of CSAM is what Reddit admins would do to justify abruptly closing subs they didn't like but weren't otherwise breaking any rules.
Since I'm an anime fan and this is not the first time I hear the Lemmy devs are not the coolest people I kinda lean onto believing their side of the story:
A while ago something similar happened on Blahaj, where they defederated from lemmynsfw claiming it contained CSAM as well, because of... /c/adorableporn, which has nothing to do with anything under 18.
I wish there was more backlash for idiotic defederations
Also perhaps a way to have a 'default instance blocklist' as a defederation-light feature so users don't have to create dozens of accounts until they find a host that doesn't end up randomly defederating from the usual suspects like lemmynsfw and lemmygrad. They could just join any of them and find the issue in their account settings if they wish for an unfiltered lemmy experience.
Welp, guess I'll keep consolidating communities to ani.social, .ml is clearly a dangerous place for us weebs to be.
reddthat.com has also been cool, and though I regret setting up !fitmoe@lemmy.world and !murdermoe@lemmy.world on .world now that ani.social exists, I've had no trouble there. The admins were perfectly willing to help me sort it out when I got fitmoe into an "unowned" state due to a bug back in version 17.
I'm not sure the admins of .ml would have bothered based on what I'm seeing of their behaviour.
Luckily the subcounts from .ml are fairly low, the breakdown for the communities I started is as follows:
Even the largest community on ani.social, !animemes@ani.social only loses 7 subs from .ml. Still, with how little support there is for anime content on .ml, it's scary to have communities like !anime@lemmy.ml(8.6k) and !animemes@lemmy.ml(2.7k) call it home. It's difficult to check how many of the users subbed to these are actually ON .ml, tho. You'd have to add up the subcounts on all other instances with users that sub to them.
You state that you regret setting up a few communities in lemmy.world, but only state trouble with lemmy.ml. Did you have any trouble on lemmy.world, regarding anime communities?
It is annoying that you can't necessarily connect to all instances from your favorite instance, but this is also what makes the fediverse great compared to more centralized social media. Even though dessalines decided to delist ani.social, ani.social still exists and is still connected to instances other than lemmy.ml.
Although seemingly distorted views of reality coming from the main lemmy dev team do concern me.
LW has a huge userbase. You are better off joining up to ani-social or other small instances. (Like reddthat :P #shameless-plug). We like anime and h- content
It's been great and not that expensive using a VPS.
$6 for the vps and $1 for 40GB HDD.
Although the HDD probably is making my instance slow, to improve it it'd be $4 for 40GB of SSD, but since the instance is only for me I don't have any issue in waiting a few minutes.
That's really unfortunate that this happened. Are they planning on moving your posts to a different instance, like lemmy.world, or will they try to get people to come to ani.social for the episode interaction with Shinobu bot?
tl;dr is that the short term plan is to try to reverse the defederation. Longer term plan if that doesn't work is probably to try to resume posting with a user on a different instance.
The root of the problem is that the anime community on the lemmy-verse has more or less consolidated to this community for episode discussions. If you look at other instances, there is a huge drop off in activity when it comes to episode discussion communities compared to here. So, it would not make sense to try to move this community to another instance as that would pretty much destroy what has been built up here compared with just moving the host instance for the bot.