I have been jamming to a djent musician for the past couple of months, and they have gone from about 10k subs to 40k on YouTube.

I think it would be nice to have content creators posting here, but I'm concerned about people complaining about YouTube and other platforms. Also, after the way Alex from Technology Connections was treated, I'd hate to see us get shitty reputation.

So, again, I ask before inviting them. What do you feel about inviting content creators? Is is invading your space? Do you welcome people just trying to make it? Would you rather keep them separate?

Like Shadow Slave or Lord of the Mysteries.

{"data":{"files":null,"msg":"ffprobe Failed with exit status: 1"},"state":"success"}

When I try to log in, I get the following errors.

Photon:

Your instance's API did not return your user data.

Tesseract:

Auth Error - Failed to fetch your user.

Not sure if anyone else faces the same issue.

No problem on the base ani.social or Voyager app btw.

pls work

do edits properly federate? (yes they do)

hopefully this doesn't spam the meta community

!2010s_music@lemmy.world does exist

https://lemmy.world/c/2010s_music

But it doesn't show up on community search for communities with "2010"

Lemmy.ml content doesn't federate here, i.e. cross posting doesn't work from lemmy.ml, so I thought I'd manually cross post this request from @nutomic@lemmy.ml , the other Lemmy developer

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/29579005

An open source project the size of Lemmy needs constant work to manage the project, implement new features and fix bugs. Dessalines and I work full-time on these tasks and more. As there is no advertising or tracking, all of our work is funded through donations. Unfortunately the amount of donations has decreased to only 2000€ per month. This leaves only 1000€ per developer, which is not enough to pay my bills. With the current level of donations I will be forced to find another job, and drastically reduce my contributions to Lemmy. To avoid this outcome and keep Lemmy growing, I ask you to please make a recurring donation:

Liberapay | Ko-fi | Patreon | OpenCollective | Crypto

If you want more information before donating, consider the comparison with Reddit. It began as startup funded by rich investors. The site is managed by corporate executives who over time have become more and more disconnected from normal users. Their main goal is to make investors happy and to make a profit. This leads to user-hostile decisions like firing the employee responsible for AMAs, blocking third-party apps and more. As Reddit is a single website under a single authority, it means all users need to follow the same rules, including ridiculous ones like censoring the name "Luigi".

Lemmy represents a new type of social media which is the complete opposite of Reddit. It is split across many different websites, each with its own rules, and managed by normal people who actually care about the users. There is no company and no profit motive. Much of the work is carried out by volunteer admins, mods and posters, who contribute out of enthusiasm and not for money. For users this is great as there is no advertising nor tracking, and no chance of takeover by a billionaire. Additionally there are no builtin political or ideological restrictions. You can use the software for any purpose you like, add your own restrictions or scrutinize its inner workings. Lemmy truly belongs to everyone.

Dessalines and I work fulltime on Lemmy to keep up with all the feature requests, bug reports and development work. Even so there is barely enough time in the day, and no time for a second job. Previously I sometimes had to rely on my personal savings to keep developing Lemmy for you, but that can't go on forever. We partly rely on NLnet for funding, but they only pay for development of new features, and not for mandatory maintenance work. The only available option are user donations. To keep it viable donations need to reach a minimum of 5000€ per month, resulting in a modest salary of 2500€ per developer. If that goal is reached Dessalines and I can stop worrying about money, and fully focus on improving the software for the benefit of all users and instances. Please use the link below to see current donation stats and make your contribution! We especially rely on recurring donations to secure the long-term development and make Lemmy the best it can be.

Donate___

In the All Posts view, I'm seeing a ton of posts from a bot account in !Parentalité@jlai.lu

https://ani.social/u/ParentBot2@jlai.lu

Posts like https://ani.social/post/12398880

The bot was added as a moderator "2 months ago" according to the modlog, but seems to be going nuts.

It started and stopped "couple of hours" ago.

Hello everyone!

Recently, we had hours of downtime yesterday (March 16) and today (March 17) and some slowdowns last week. Basically, the server was suffering from storage performance issues. I talked to the hosting provider about it and we got it fixed. Hopefully we don't run into issues like that again (or soon at least).

We also had downtime around 1 month ago which was caused by really aggressive web scrapers which should be fixed by now. I blocked their ASN and I started blocking AI bots too. Other Lemmy instances have been affected by the same scrapers too.

There might be a bit more downtime during the next few days as I make a few changes to the way I do backups. It should only be a few minutes though.

Lastly, I'd like to introduce @Gaen@ani.social - a kind of AutoMod that should take care of spam. If you've been on Lemmy for a long time already, Gaen shouldn't remove your posts/comments or ban you. If you think Gaen made a mistake, you can send me an email: help@ani.social.

Occasionally it might send you messages if you've forgotten to mark a post as NSFW, but I'm still testing this. I'm also looking into a way to remove the "Nicole spam" with her.

Gaen is named after Gaen Izuko from the Monogatari Series because she claims to "know everything".

If you have any questions, feel free to ask. :D

I wanted to suggest adding ani.social to lemmy-federate.com. This would make it easier for other instances to discover and federate with communities on the instance.

It's been a while since I've made these type of posts but there'll be a server maintenance that will (hopefully) address the recent Lemmy-UI problems.

edit: I'm going to cancel this because the problem has been solved by blocking excessive crawling/scraping bots. No more crashing and zombie processes.

It's been going on for maybe few days for me, could be on my side, but I tried VPN servers from different countries and it didn't seem to change anything, other Lemmy instances and sites work as usual. Here, opening a thread sometimes takes minutes. Sometimes it just hangs and ends up rendering empty page and you have to refresh in a few minutes to get there. Those issues aren't permanent, they come and go, it may be laggy for 10 minutes and then totally fine for other 10 minutes. It's laggy very often though. Anyone had similar issues?

Hi, I noticed that !honkaistarrail@lemmy.ml is missing posts from the last 2 months. Posts that do exist also have slightly lower vote count than in reality.

I compare by those 3 instances:

https://lemmy.ml/c/honkaistarrail

https://ani.social/c/honkaistarrail@lemmy.ml

https://lemmy.world/c/honkaistarrail@lemmy.ml

The past few days I've been noticing 5xx errors from Cloudflare while using the site.

Is everything working ok?

Is https://status.ani.social/ configured to check the loop through Cloudflare or directly?

For some reason this particular community doesn't have any posts on this instance other than my own recent one. But when you browse it from other instances, it has a lot, for example look here:

• https://lemmy.world/c/blender
• https://lemmynsfw.com/c/blender@lemmy.world

Is this a bug?

Proposal: Switch to Alexandrite or provide a toggle between interfaces.

Rational: Alexandrite passed all the markdown tests featured in this post. Unlike lemmy-UI and Photon. Fewer than 15% of Lemmy Apps display posts accurately

Additionally, it is pretty. :D

Actual:

Expected:

Edit: the font colours are wanted I was just struggling with the CSS to make an example.

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.

Ani.Social's 1st Birthday! 🥳

Today Ani.Social is officially 1 year old! It's kind of crazy that it's been a year already. I still remember the days when it was just me posting illustrations of Kurumi. Now there's nearly 1,000 of us and over 50 communities! We've been through a lot this year (defederations, federation issues, migrations, etc) but I'm happy there's a lot of support from the community and even other admins from different instances! I want to say thank you to everyone who has contributed through posts, comments, community tools, reports, funding, and more!

Ani.Social was kind of an experiment to see if hosting a public instance is something sustainable and fulfilling. After a year I can say that it is both! :D Here's to another year!

(Fun fact: We share the same birthday as Gawr Gura from Hololive EN.)

(Fun fact 2: Ani.Social was supposed to be a KBin instance. But because there was not docker container, I settled with Lemmy instead.)

Upgrade to Lemmy ~~v0.19.4~~ v0.19.5

We upgraded to ~~v0.19.4~~ v0.19.5 which brings some new features like the ability to remove stuff you uploaded through your profile page. A full list of changes may be found here. I also want to note that because sometimes upgrading Lemmy doesn't take very long, I might not make an announcement in advance anymore.

Accidental image removal

A few weeks ago, there were some images that were deleted because of a bug from a tool I used to remove old images cached from other instances. I have a long explanation here. This shouldn't happen again (hopefully!).

Verification mails did not send

For about a week in May, email was not working so some people who signed up did not receive an email. I was informed by a user who sent an email at help@ani.social. This has been resolved and anyone who did not receive a verification email can email me to have your account verified.

Random downtimes

You might notice that there are some downtime here and there. Part of this is because of small changes I make to the server (like enabling or disabling certain settings). These usually don't take long (a minute or two of downtime).

Sometimes you might see the instance gone for as long as an hour or two. This is usually caused by our hosting provider. This type of downtime is not really within my control so please bare with it. If the instance is down/inaccessible you can visit https://status.ani.social/ where I post updates.

Automatic moderation tools

In the near future, I plan to add automatic moderation tools (automod) such as LemmyAutomod and Fedi-safety. Both tools are likely experimental and may remove posts or images wrongly. I'll keep a close eye on them when I deploy them.

Closing thoughts -- one year in the Fediverse

A few days ago I was reading this article called "Seven Theses on the Fediverse and the Becoming of FLOSS" which made a lot of interesting points on the Fediverse (duh). Theses 3, 5, and 6 are the most relevant ones in my opinion.

Thesis 3 is relevant for a lot of the political discussions and issues on defederation you see around in the Fediverse. Thesis 5 is relevant for developers, admins, and moderators as it deals with labor. Thesis 6 extends this to users.

Transitioning from corporate social media extends far past from simply "install this app and treat it like Reddit/Twitter/Instagram". It's not just a technical change for most users, it's a new social experience. The social world of the Fediverse is different from corporate social media because of how it operates differently (in policy, labor, etc). More importantly though, a lot of our practices and principles are still experimental so it's interesting to see how these are changing and developing over time (and as mentioned in the article, how these will generate new "userships").

Anyway, I suddenly feel a wave of laziness so maybe I won't write anything more than that. Feel free to read the article because there's a lot to think about.

Again, if you have any questions or concerns, please let me know! Thanks for reading all the way through!

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 :)