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- Comment on The YouTube Alternative Nobody's Talking About ! Peertube 1 day ago:
I think Peertube is more of a Vimeo alternative. YouTube is built around advertising.
- Comment on Policy Updates and Feedback (+ a few other things) 2 days ago:
For the free ones, it’s still Cloudflare unfortunately. The other option looks like it’s only for npm, GitHub, Wordpress.
- Comment on Policy Updates and Feedback (+ a few other things) 2 days ago:
That’s a goal of mine (moving away from Cloudflare) but Cloudflare’s free CDN is kind of necessary to keep server costs low at the moment.
- Comment on Policy Updates and Feedback (+ a few other things) 4 days ago:
If it’s a personal community, probably not. But you can still share over at !anime@ani.social or any of the communities that exist here. You can take a look at ani.social/communities to see what kind of communities are generally acceptable!
- Comment on Pope new anime waifu 1 week ago:
I actually saw this the other day, then a few hours later I learned that the pope had died. I thought the meme was referencing the pope’s death so I thought “Wow, I can’t believe I learned about his death because of a meme!” Now, it’s kind of awkward.
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 17] 1 week ago:
I watched Kick-Heart the other day. Masaaka Yuasa is incredible (and his work is incredibly horny). It’s a lot of fun.
- Comment on Weird bot posts in !Parentalité@jlai.lu got federated 1 week ago:
Sorry I just came across this right now. It seems like the mods of the community took care of it already. It was probably just a misconfigured bot.
- Comment on Policy Updates and Feedback (+ a few other things) 1 week ago:
I’ve been thinking about this too. I might limit it to “East Asian” works because that covers China and Korea. But that still doesn’t cover everything. Western media with “anime influence” is also really tricky too. I was watching Genius Party (collection of Japanese animation shorts) and some of the short films there don’t look anything like “anime” because they’re not very “moe”. But a lot of Western works are “moe”. There’s some disagreement between the two terms.
I could just put “anime” in scare quotes too. That might solve it for now lol
- Comment on What's a cancelled game you really miss? 1 week ago:
Dota Underlords
- Comment on Policy Updates and Feedback (+ a few other things) 1 week ago:
Thanks! Interesting book. My sister read “Why Nations Fail” from the same author so maybe I should read this one. But yeah, I’ll update the policy to include the clause and just try to word it nicely.
- Comment on Policy Updates and Feedback (+ a few other things) 1 week ago:
Thanks! As for the discretion clause, it only applies to admins removing/banning things. Mods are free to manage their communities as they see fit. As much as possible, I’d like to make instance rules detailed so nobody can claim abuse when a catch-all rule is used. Although I know I can make up rules on the spot, I’d like them to be well-documented at least. But you’re right, it’s hard to predict the future. For now, I think I’ll include it to see how things will develop first.
- Comment on Policy Updates and Feedback (+ a few other things) 1 week ago:
Thanks!
- Comment on Policy Updates and Feedback (+ a few other things) 2 weeks ago:
It is. A lot of anime are like that (Monogatari, High School DxD, etc). I didn’t specify the term “ecchi” because IIRC it also just means “hentai”. Only in English does it mean “no sex”.
- Comment on Policy Updates and Feedback (+ a few other things) 2 weeks ago:
It happens sometimes lol. The weirdest community was dedicated to a celebrity and the first post was a video of him shirtless o_o.
It’s one of the reasons why I don’t agree when people say “just pick any instance, it doesn’t matter”. It does matter!
- Comment on Policy Updates and Feedback (+ a few other things) 2 weeks ago:
Yeah that’s more or less why I’m having trouble with the terms. Because it means different things in different regions. In this case, I think I’ll emphasize moe more.
I’m also concerned with using the term “Japanese media” specifically because a lot of things produced today aren’t Japanese origin. Like Genshin and Wuwa which are Chinese, and Blue Archive which is Korean. MiSide is made by Russian developers.
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- Comment on One Piece Director Megumi Ishitani Calls For Legal Action Against OpenAI: 'Can't Stand Ghibli Being Treated So Cheaply' 2 weeks ago:
Interesting mix of responses here. I think it’s not a matter of copying art style though. I think it’s more to do with the death of creative labor. Especially with how labor intensive Studio Ghibli films are.
But I learned some time ago that we’re in “the age of curatorship” so maybe we’ll just continue filtering out AI stuff the same way we try to filter out “brainrot” or “slop content”. Unless of course, you actually like any of that (and I do like to watch these from time to time myself).
With the current situation, it’s also interesting that Studio Ghibli hasn’t said anything yet. Or at least I’m not aware of any legitimate statements yet. Maybe Sudio Ghibli isn’t bothered by it at all.
Anyway, I think it’s good people actively resist AI. It’s here to stay unless laws limit or prohibit it.
- Comment on Mario Kart Should Cost More - YouTube 2 weeks ago:
You’re nitpicking and biased. I win. Bye bye.
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 15] 3 weeks ago:
I watched two movies the past few weeks:
- Genius Party
This is a collection of animated short films from different directors. The two notable ones here for me were Masaaki Yuasa and Shinichirou Watanabe. Happy Machine (Masaaki) was my favorite! The little baby character (and the overall vibe of it) reminded me of Pendleton Ward’s Adventure Time.
There were other really quirky ones in the collection too. Deathtic 4 was different from the rest. It was 3DCG and I don’t know the language (it sounds European). Interestingly, there’s a scene there where the zombies said they were fighting “injustices” and it shows them trying to pick a fight with two girls wearing a US flag and USSR flag suits (it was funny). Genius Party (same title as the collection) was chaotic and fun while Limit Cycle was really (intentionally) boring (it’s about a salaryman).
The more “normal” ones were Shanghai Dragon, Doorbell, and Baby Blue (Shinichirou). Shanghai Dragon was partly in Chinese because it’s set in China. I think anyone familiar with Japan-China relations will raise eyebrows here because it portays a poor China and a technologically advanced Japan, but at the end it was the Chinese boy who saved everyone through his imagination as opposed to the technology of Japan. Doorbell reminded me of Satoshi Kon, and Baby Blue was maybe my favorite for the “normal” shorts.
- Ghost in the Shell (1995 movie)
I had this in my watchlist for a looong time (because it’s a certified classic) and I’m happy that I did not watch it earlier. I don’t think I would have appreciated this at a young age. I think this is the second Oshii Mamoru movie I watched. The first was Angel’s Egg which was pretty much the ending of GITS. There’s already a wealth of information and reviews on GITS especially by Western writers so I don’t really have to say much here.
But I noticed how spirituality or religion always ties with technology in anime. People who’ve seen Serial Experiments Lain probably know what I mean. It’s very similar to GITS. Evangelion is another example. Also, it might sound a bit odd but it reminds me a bit of the “programming” in Angel Beats too which I complete last month.
(Also Major Kusanagi is very beautiful. Holy shit.)
This week I might watch Genius Party 2 and maybe look for an older series to finish (maybe more Masaaki Yuasa stuff).
- Comment on Having trouble with my caddy congif for my lemmy instance 3 weeks ago:
Have you tried looking at the Caddyfile from Lemmy-Easy-Deploy?
- Comment on Anime wisdom 3 weeks ago:
I’m not sure about the others, but the last guy (from Oregairu iirc) was definitely pretentious. Like being vague about his ideas just to appear smart and productive. The hand gestures was the best part.
- Comment on Winter Anime Season Wrap-Up Discussion [2025, Week 14] 4 weeks ago:
Though they couldn’t even manage to do that without sticking the bitch in the scene
I read the Scum’s Wish manga. If I recall correctly, there’s an extra chapter of her some time after the events. I think that was the very last chapter too. Now that you point it out, it does kind of seem like the story centered around her a lot.
For some reason though, I actually enjoyed this manga lol
- Comment on Phantom Rides: Trains in the work of Hideaki Anno by River Seager 4 weeks ago:
I found this video essay interesting. The style is a bit different where narration is text on screen but I found it enjoyable without an audible narrator.
I never really thought about the trains in Hideaki Anno’s works but now I’m a lot more conscious about it.
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- Comment on Director of Japan's First AI Anime Defends New Spring 2025 Work: 'It Will Give More Opportunities to Animators' 4 weeks ago:
In my opinion, the cause of “the burden of animation” is being underpaid and overworked. If there were better laws that can address these issues, we wouldn’t need to resort to AI.
But for in-betweening, I assume you’re referring to something like CACANI but that’s a bit different from generative AI I think. It behaves more like 3DCG because the lines are vectors.
- Comment on 'An Insult To Life Itself': Hayao Miyazaki’s AI Criticism Resurfaces As OpenAI’s Ghibli-Style Image Trend Takes Over Social Media 4 weeks ago:
The clip is from a documentary where Miyazaki works on a 3DCG short film (something completely unheard of). You can watch the documentary here. I do like the point he makes:
(Suzuki) “So, what’s your goal?”
(Guy) “Well, we would like to build a machine that can draw pictures like humans do.”
(Miyazaki) “We humans are losing faith in ourselves.”
- Comment on Lucky Star Dance Lyrics in English (fan dubbed)- peertube no ads 4 weeks ago:
Could you send an email to help@ani.social so I can take a look? Thanks!
- Comment on Why is Lemmy only popular in the western World? 4 weeks ago:
I should clarify that NLnet is probably not a commercial company like Skeb is. I know translation exists but all the Lemmy support chatrooms are in English.
- Comment on Why is Lemmy only popular in the western World? 4 weeks ago:
Reddit was (and still is) seen as foreign/overseas social media. Other social media platforms are much more diverse than Reddit. Twitter, TikTok, and Insta for example. YouTube and Facebook too.
Most people here in Lemmy come from Reddit. Reddit is very popular in the Western world. It’s not popular outside of it.
In the context of the larger Fediverse, I think Misskey is an interesting case study. It’s created and designed by Japanese people. The docs are in Japanese. It’s sponsored by a Japanese company. Resources and support are also in Japanese. Therefore it has a strong Japanese userbase.
On the other hand, Lemmy is created and designed by Western people. The docs are in English. It’s sponsored by a Western company. Resources and support are in English. Therefore it has a strong Western userbase.
Also I should point out that other than Twitter, Instagram, etc. there are some platforms operated by non-Western companies. China has a lot of those like Bilibili, Weibo, Baidu, etc. Korea has Katalk and Line, etc etc. They aren’t popular outside of the region.
- Comment on What is your best supernatural anime? 4 weeks ago:
Monogatari Series