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@ani.socialToday 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.)
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.
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!).
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.
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.
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.
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!
https://ani.social/c/blender@lemmy.world
A community for users of the awesome, open source, free, animation, modeling, procedural generating, sculpting, texturing, compositing, and rendering software; Blender. Rules: 1. Be nice 2. Constructive Criticism only 3. If a render is photo realistic, please provide a wireframe or clay render
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.
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 :)
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.
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.
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.)
You can now upload videos that are up to 25mb in size and 7200 frames. See example below:
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.
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).
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.
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.
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!
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.