Happy birthday ani.social! Thanks for putting the effort into keeping the lights on as the community here has grown.

Ani.Social was supposed to be a KBin instance

That bit of serendipity worked out in your favor. My understanding is that kbin development has essentially stopped because of health issues with the dev. The mbin project has essentially taken up the reins as a successor still under active development.

Automatic moderation tools

These sound interesting, however these are admin-level tools rather than community-level. I have been saying for ages that lemmy needs more tools built in to help community moderators, but I am hopeful that they might be coming. Someday. Maybe. Hopefully? I know that sublinks is focusing a lot on this, but I haven’t heard as much from the lemmy devs.

I host an instance of lemmy I use for testing, so I took a quick look through the documentation for these tools to maybe install and play around with them, but I think these might be a step beyond what I want to put the effort into getting set up. Thanks for the work that you do on this front. I wonder how the image filtering tool is going to deal with drawn content. The false positive rate might differ a lot compared to what is typical.