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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.

You shouldn't take this personally. The lead lemmy devs, nutomic and dessalines, are completely unhinged redfash. In addition to lemmy.ml, they also own lemmygrad.ml, the completely mask-off tankie instance. Tankies often have a weird hatred of anime fans, which is likely what inspired the defederation. In any case, they were never going to hear you out.

Nutomic and dessalines have a habit of engaging in this kind of self-marginalizing petty tyrant behavior, and many people avoid them and lemmy.ml because of their authoritarian, genocidal politics. While this is unfortunate overall, it does provide a fair amount of incentive to fork the project, and should provide a significant boost to any competent fork. Nutomic and dessalines aren't exactly brilliant programmers or project managers, and their presence is more of a hindrance than a help at this point.

It's not you, it's them. Frankly, the sooner the Lemmyverse decentralizes away from those awful devs the better. They're the main reason I went with a kbin instance as my home instance.

You don't have to apologize for this, and you're doing great at managing this instance.

I disagree with this decision, I never saw a single piece of CSAM coming from ani.social, or the devs backing up their claim that ani.social would have CSAM, and honestly I do not think that ani.social admins did anything wrong, so... here I am.

I think that, at this point, we're bound to need to use multiple accounts to access all content that we want. This might get better over time; but for now I wish that I could merge the feeds of multiple accounts.

Maybe I'm blind but I've seen almost no NSFW stuff on ani.social, let alone CSAM/loli content. Even the stuff I've seen marked as NSFW is just risque art usually. Feels like they just decided we're an anime community so we must be spreading that stuff.

It sucks but it is what it is, I can't say I personally subscribed to any lemmy.ml communities anyway. I definitely don't think it's anything you've personally done or failed to do, never had any issues with any of the content or people on this instance!

I wouldn't be upset over this, since the lemmy.ml admins' moral compass is completely fucked up to begin with. For instance, they're working with another tankie lead dev who literally called multiple times to murder Israeli civilians by saying stuff like "all Israeli civilians are valid targets", "there are no civilians in Israel" or "anything that moves and isn't Palestinian is a valid target" (not even paraphrasing here), and they're talking about hiring him with the donations, meaning they implicitly condone what he said. People who called them out for being extremists were right.

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 wholeheartedly disagree with the statement that you're doing a poor job

yall have preemptively made guidelines against CSAM and afaik I haven't seen that on ani.social👍

the fact that they're not even willing to communicate is real unfortunate for them as I think they're missing out of a great community as I've seen some high-level debates and conversations

Ex:
Steins;Gate's Brilliant Time Travel Theory and Plot Explained

Steins;Gate Time Travel Concepts Explained | Anime Science

the Haruhi problem - 25yr permutational math problem

What is Truth? - Philosophy in Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

I recall a post on another instance I wanna say about a month ago where there was a big defed list with a bunch of instances erroneoussly marked for CSAM or extremist content. Big lists like that can have malicious actors fuck with the list for whatever reason, and that can poison the well later down the line for others.

It's possible this instance was flagged as bad by someone with a dislike of anime for whatever reason and now it's being treated as fact rather than actually be checked up on

Would be interresting to hear a statement from dessalines

Sorry to hear this, sounds horrible. I wish people would not spur shit thats eaten up like its candy. There is supposed tonbe evidence for claims such as this. Real sad that the fear is holding people so strongly that they would rather defederate 100 instances that are innocent than see any evidence.

I hope all works out for you guys.

People who are not tankies would rather defederate from lemmy.ml than you.