Due to a quirk of how federation works, you cannot discover communities or magazines through search or on “all”, until at least one other user on your instance has manually triggered federation to be “initialized” by searching for that exact community/magazine.

I thought it would be good to keep a list to help us all find the places wed like to participate in. So far, I’ve found, and created some of what is listed below. If you know about or start a new community/magazine, comment! I’ll update the list.

Save this post so you can come back to it as it grows.

Mods of anime communities/magazines, consider copying parts of, or the whole list, into your sidebars.

On Lemmy, if a link does not work on your instance, paste it into search. If browsing from Kbin, replace /c/ in url with /m/ or enter the community name with an @ instead of ! in search.

Recent events

lemmy.ml has banned several anime communities over recent months. The status of anime-related content on .ml is thereby strenuous, and most of us are making an effort to move away from hosting communities on lemmy.ml as a precaution.

There is always a possibility for resolution, but as of now, lemmy.ml’s admins have not been particularly accepting of the anime community, and even defederated ani.social for a while.

Anime instances

Recommended communities

Some basic communities most people should like. I’ve marked other communities that I personally follow as “active” but other communities are also alive. And if the aren’t, make em alive :D

General

Memes

“Moe” art communities

these are all kept very active by me, personally

Specific anime franchises

Games

  • Unique_Emerald_Sol_I@ani.socialEnglish
    1·
    20 hours ago

    Hey looks like this list hasn’t been updated in a while (either 2 years by the title or 9 months by the 🖉 mark). Have there been any changes lately?

    Also I’d be curious whether RWBY-related communities would qualify to be on the list? I’m currently trying to drum up activity in the only one I’ve found over on sh.itjust.works but also semi-considering starting up a RWBY NSFW community somewhere because there is just so much of it and I’m not seeing it shared anywhere.

    As an aside, ʚ♡⃛ɞ(ू•ᴗ•ू❁) thank you for your work keeping the moe communities active on ani.social.

    • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
      1·
      13 hours ago

      The slightly more updated post is here: https://ani.social/post/284178

      I’m stick to my subscribed feed pretty much, which has meant I’ve missed stuff.

      You can leave a comment with community mentions, and I’ll edit the post when I get to it.

  • DundasStation@lemmy.caEnglish
    8·
    3 years ago

    Thanks for creating the list!

    I do have a concern with !anime@lemmy.ml, though. That community is moderated by a subreddit hoarder on Reddit (u/N3DSdude). You might not want to promote a community ran by a subreddit hoarder who doesn’t give a shit about their community.

    Also, you posted !animemes@lemmy.ml twice by mistake. :P

    • Yadaran@feddit.deEnglish
      4·
      3 years ago

      How do you pin stuff to the top of a community? I haven’t found out how to do that yet.

      Nvm I found the option on the Website instead of Jerboa

      • Red@reddthat.comMEnglish
        3·
        3 years ago

        👍 Yeah gotta open the post options. Jerboa doesn’t have a lot of moderation features that I need as well. A pity really.

      • Red@reddthat.comMEnglish
        3·
        3 years ago

        With content and an attitude like that you’ll be a moderator of this community in less than a week!

        • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
          3·
          3 years ago

          We’ll see. I have more communities I wanna start but I decided to see how much time the ones I’ve made across two accounts already will take…

          But if it comes to it, I’ll be happy to serve 🫡

    • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
      2·
      3 years ago

      In the cases where are a lot, I try to link just the most active one. We don’t have the usercount to keep too many subs at a self-sustaining activity level, so some consolidation is warranted.

      That said, if there’s just the one, or two at about the same activity level, I’ll link both so people can sub to both, or pick one they like more.