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 [email protected] 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/[email protected]

https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]

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/[email protected]

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.

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 :)

Ani.Social and Lemmy.World federation issues

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.

Lost activities

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.)

Video uploads

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.

Temporarily removing info.ani.social

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).

Alternative front ends

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.

Nyaa.Social

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.

Questions, suggestions, and feedback

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.

Hey there.

Post that are made to the lightnovels community ([email protected]) from the lemmy.world instance (for example this post https://lemmy.world/post/13768303) don’t show up here.

As a further development of this previous post https://ani.social/post/2612139 about the weird download request:

I am generally unable to save changes to my posts made in /c's that are hosted on other instances, like this one I just made to [email protected]

https://ani.social/post/2678587

Anyone else having that problem?

Hello,

When I visit this post https://ani.social/post/2611163 my browser downloads a random file called "master.m3u8"

I'm running firefox 115.8.0esr with the darkly-red theme for lemmy.

With this option enabled "Auto expand media".

The offending line appears to be the following: <iframe class="post-metadata-iframe" allowfullscreen="true" src="https://prod.vodvideo.cbsnews.com/cbsnews/vr/hls/2024/03/11/2317151299662/2750480_hls/master.m3u8" title="House Democrats try to force floor vote on foreign aid for Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan"></iframe>

From a security perspective, using a iframe to anything posted seems dubious?

I wanted to chat about Dune 2, but the pinned thread over at [email protected] from 13 days ago wasn't federated to this server.

https://lemm.ee/post/25038001

I wound up replying from my lemmy.ml account as a workaround.

Newer posts from [email protected] have been federated as normal.

In the sidebar, I see some words highlighted in green saying "Guarantor literature.cafe" and "Endorsements 2"

literature.cafe is another lemmy instance, and "guarantor" seems to be some kind of concept to do with ~~lemmyspace~~ the fediverse chain of trust.

Okay, I think I've found the answer: It's to do with how the fediverse makes sure servers are added using a chain of trust, and to quickly disconnect rogue/spam servers: https://dbzer0.com/blog/overseer-a-fediverse-chain-of-trust/

Hello!

I've made a simple source bot and named it Soutaku. The account is @[email protected]. It can be summoned with a mention, either by the author of a post in the post body itself, or anyone in the comments.

Consider this a beta, functionality is extremely simple so there's not a lot that can go wrong, but I've also not done much testing.

Mentions should work reliably, and make the bot respond no matter what. But Soutaku will also attempt to detect posts that do not include source or artist credit, and comment on these automatically.

Only images linked in the post URL currently work, so trying to summon the bot to find the source for images embedded in the post body or in a comment, won't work. For now.

I have whitelisted Soutaku for the following communities, feel free to contact me if you'd like any additional communities added.

• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]

When I'm viewing community https://ani.social/c/[email protected] on my desktop browser, Firefox on Windows, with personal setting "Auto Expand Media" turned on, one particular post is asking me to download an .mp4 video from streamable.com: https://ani.social/post/1923262

After declining the download, the space for the expanded media is just blank.

This doesn't happen when viewing the same /c on .ml https://lemmy.ml/c/[email protected]

On .ml, I just get a screenshot of the video.

It's just that one post.

On other earlier and later posts of links to streamable.com videos in the same /c, I just get a screenshot.

Maybe some kind of corrupted data as that particular post was transferring over?

We will be upgrading to Lemmy v0.19.3 on 2024-01-27 09:00 UTC+8. During this time, this instance will be temporarily unavailable for approximately three hours as we perform the maintenance.

You can view the instance status updates here.

We apologize for any inconveniences.

It seems like kbin is not synchronizing with other lemmys?

I was wondering if this is intentional, or some sort of bug.

Thanks