Where serialization?

oh boy that would be one hard sell. Probably would need 500k or more to justify never listening to them again

Forget 42 this is the real answer to everything

Praise be he came back with the sauce

Bro really just vanished without providing the sauce

Not on the phone but I had to threaten the Bitdefender E-Mail rep with a lawsuit in order to get my money back.

A few months into my 2 year subscription I changed my e-mail associated with my Bitdefender account. Thereafter all mail I got from them went to that new email, as it should. A short while after that I switched over to Linux and my “need” for an AntiVirus evaporated entirely between Linux’ workflow not really requiring one anyway and me learning how little AntiVirus Software offers over the default Windows Defender. Queue forward to the end of that 2 year subscription (whose auto-renewal I had disabled before leaving Windows exactly to prevent what happened anyway but alas I have no proof of that anymore) I notice a really weird charge while reviewing my credit card statement. A charge that by all accounts should not have been there and one I was not made aware of beforehand. Guess what, those fucks sent only the mail about the upcoming renewal to the old email account which I had no reason whatsoever to suspect would still receive mail from them. Curiously the mail about them cancelling the renewed charge after I went off on them was sent to the new email again…

Initially the customer service said “oh well can’t do anything here’s a 50€ discount” until I lost my cool and threatened to sue them for theft because by all reasonable standards I could not have expected them to inform me on my old email about this upcoming charge.

On that note my stance was reaffirmed: Between and AntiVirus and an actual Virus I’d pick the latter, at least those are upfront about their motives and intentions instead of pretending to provide you with a service.

I highly doubt anyone is actively fucking with the /c here (other than the admins). I’d simply suspect missing metadata or some shit before assuming someone is somehow covertly sabotaging multiple open content discovery services for the fediverse.

The source code for lemmyverse is public so there’s no need to just speculate. I haven’t checked myself but I highly doubt anime@lemmy.ml is somehow getting filtered out of the search results. Imo it’s mich more likely that the community is just the victim of some bug. Maybe check again in a few days, I know lemmyverse had issues with communities disappearing when they couldn’t be reached during the listing updates.

I may have an extremely warped opinion on this due to several reasons (imo mostly due to irl encounters with adult people that would put you on a watch list due to how young they look) but I think in the end it usually boils down to anime/manga just being terrible media for portraying how old a character actually is. The oldest anime character you can draw will still look significantly younger than a person you meet irl simply because the art style hides a lot of the age marks.

Edit: which is not to say that there isn’t a lot of CSAM hiding, it’s just imo the stuff that gets popular on SFW platforms is rarely that stuff

I see two options as to why you made that comment:

1: you just blindly believe what that admin said and have no opinion of your own, if that is the case I highly doubt a discussion is possible

2: you actually believe anime is csam in which case a discussion won’t be possible either because we don’t share the same definition of what csam is

As a closing note I find it hilarious that someone from hexbear of all places tries to ridicule people for trying to move to a safe space for their community

Edit: case in point against the csam claim is the fact that the instance in question got re-added to join-lemmy.org because the material that got it removed was not remotely seen as csam by the other maintaners

I mean yeah let’s try it absolutely, just doubtful it’ll work.

yeah I don’t think they are actively messing with the modlog. That would get them a pretty huge outrage if discovered so I think it’s more likely just buggy, wouldn’t be the only thing currently not working as intended.

I highly doubt 1 will work given the reaction they had initially to claims it contains csam. 2 could potentially work though, maybe they’d have to write in a disclaimer of sorts to get the admins on board. If the link is the problem and not the wording just writing the instance name without a link would also work I guess.

@N3DSdude, @Nami, @ram, @rammy What are the mods’ thoughts on this idea?

Not sure, never happened to me yet. I’d guess so. I noticed with the previous discussion post because I have instance admin superpowers (jokes aside as admin I still see deleted posts even on other instances)

I mean yeah, that’s why the talk about moving the stragglers was even brought up. Keeping this anime community is neither in the best interest of the .ml admins nor in the best interest of the community.

I think some people have stockholm from how anime communities were treated on reddit and don’t realize that they can get a whole lot less censorship than that. I think it’s in everyone’s best interest if we move this last piece over. The lemmy.ml admins (at least in part) don’t want us here and people coming here likely don’t want the same bs censorship that was on reddit. Always ducking your head because getting noticed means half the content of the month gets hammered wasn’t fun on reddit and if possible I’d like this to be a better experience than that.

It really isn’t the largest though, maybe by users but certainly not by activity. For example the post about “The Boy and Heron” winning a golden globe got 9 comments on the unspeakable instance and only 2 here. From my own experience posting to both that seems to be the norm.

Regarding content removal from what I saw in the modlog the most concerning action other than preventing people from talking about alternatives was removing the Alya-san Key Visuals. So that gives you a good baseline of what will get hammered if noticed: pretty much everything.

The defederation being grounds for removal of all mention is a bit silly but not a discussion I’m willing to go into here as it would be pretty off-topic. I repsect your opinion on the matter but imo it’s a very slippery slope to ban talking about something outright.

To be pretty blunt here closing down here is more a formality than anything really, even just stat wise there are slightly more active users on the other instance and the users there are apparently a lot more engaged in discussion than people here.

Removed by mod

Yup, that was a bit of a shit show all around, made the rounds in the privacy communities as well and they were not pleased with the blatant censorship over there either. I guess stuff like this is why a lot of those people hang around dbzer0 now. To each interest an instance with fitting policies I guess.

The really sad part though is how it locks in users on lemmy.ml, you can’t even really link to a safe haven because doing so is already grounds to get the post/comment removed

To add a bit more opinion: If you have an account on lemmy.ml itself and read/comment in either the Anime or Manga community I urgently recommend you migrate to a different instance. As far as I can tell the instance we shan’t name here anymore for fear of admin abuse is still visible on join-lemmy.org after widespread complaints that removing an instance from there based on admin opinion alone is not exactly nice.

Best way to tell you how to find it is go to join-lemmy.org and look for an obviously anime themed instance in the “Art” category. Not sure if just saying that is grounds for removal though, depends on how trigger happy the admins here are.

I think having one community be a hub is a lot better than the split setup we currently have. It makes it hard to discover content, you miss out on discussions, sometimes have to write the same comment twice and if you subscribe to both your feed gets cluttered with duplicate posts.

Not to mention ani.social being an instance dedicated to anime makes community management there a bit easier (although I’m of the opinion any medium-sized community should just get their own instance given the flexibility in management that provides and then cross-post to hub communities like /c/anime)