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UPDATED 02.07.23: List of Anime communities on the fediverse (PLEASE CONTRIBUTE)

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, copy link text into search. If browsing from Kbin, replace /c/ in url with /m/ or enter link text with an @ instead of ! in search.

Specific anime

Kbin magazines, if link does not work, go to the magazine on Kbin, and paste the entire URL into search on your instance. With kbin magazines, the [email protected] format does not work on lemmy.

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lemmy.world

Oh dear, your comment failed to federate. .world is a bit overloadead so sometimes the stuff you guys do doesn't get to us. I'm only seeing this now because have this account, too, but it's an alt.

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MentalEdgereply
sopuli.xyz

On lemmy, only pasting the full url into search for mags, gets them to federate. Once at least one user does that tho, you just replace the /m/ in the kbin url with /c/ and it works.

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azurekbn
kbin.social

Hey, just wanted to let you know that the links on the masterpost are redirecting to 404 errors. But I can access them through kbin like this, e.g.,

https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]

m (magazine) instead of c
Anime enthusiast here so thanks for the post btw!

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MentalEdgereply
sopuli.xyz

Yes that's why:

If browsing from Kbin, replace /c/ in the url with /m/ or enter link text with an @ instead of ! in search.

Is in the post. Because its in a lemmy Community, and thats how the url works over here. You can find kbin friendly links in the crosspost to the kbin anime magazine: https://kbin.social/m/Anime/t/56085

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erin
lemmy.sidh.bzh

overlord doesn't work. there is also a community for Gundam/Gunpla:

![email protected]

and for Bleach:

![email protected]

I find it strange that there is still no Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, Demon Slayer or Jujutsu Kaisen's communities yet based on their popularity and I'm sure that in fact they exist and I didn't find them yet.

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Ru_dub
sh.itjust.works

So, if I understand correctly, this community is hosted on the lemmy.ml instance, right? I heard bad things about lemmy.ml admins, so I'm wondering whether that was the right choice.

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MentalEdgereply
lemmy.world

Oh! Looks like anime.xyz just enabled federation! They were an unfederated anime-only instance, and they seem like a good candidate for a new home instance for the weeb community!

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MentalEdgereply
lemmy.world

Yes, but this com is a lot older than the reddit exodus. It was already here three years ago. And the anime community is pretty spread out over the fediverse, which is good, so even if this is a "main" sub, moving it wont be too much trouble if it ever comes to that.

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terribleplan
lemmy.nrd.li

Animoe says:

For the ones who already have a Lemmy account at another Lemmy server: AniMoe is a standalone server meaning it can’t connect to other Lemmy servers to make this server as simple and most Reddit-like as possible for non-technical users. It’s possible that this will change in the future. This means that you need an account on this site to post, subscribe to communities, etc.

So seems like they are uninterested in federating for now at least.

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MentalEdgereply
sopuli.xyz

So it seems. I knew that too, but they were visible from other servers for a while, but it stopped working. Must have been unintended.

I hope they federate! Most people, once they see how the fediverse works, arent going to be interested in making accounts on isolated instances, and the anime community on here is already growing explosively.

But if they federate like the star trek instance is doing, people will almost certainly flock to it. Unless they do it too late.

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MentalEdgereply
sopuli.xyz

I checked your instance, no-one has subbed to it there yet, so that's why are getting a 404 when trying to use the link. Follow the instructions at the top of the list to get it federated over to aussie.zone.

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MentalEdgereply
sopuli.xyz

Unreachable is not something I've ever seen, just "No results" which you might get for a good minute, while it gets the info from the newly federated community. I sometimes have to come back and do the search again to give it a minute to do that.

At the very least you should be getting mine and your mentions of it as results.

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MentalEdgereply
lemmy.world

Could be good for a while, but long term linking it in the sidebar should do. That also works on other coms, so this post could become a discovery hub, easy to find as long as you can search up one anime community.

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MentalEdgereply
lemmy.world

I meant to suggest that you do likewise in coms you mod. It will help discovery immensely, especially as [email protected] is by far the easiest to find. For now, my post is fairly prominent and as such easy to find, but I intend to keep it up to date indefinitely, meaning you could cover this with a single link for a good while into the future.

It can't be a link to the post in any given user's local instance, lemmy cant link things that way yet, but they'll still be able to open the list and see the community names.

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MalachiAzrael
lemmy.world

The animoe.xyz links seem to be spotty. Not sure if it just the federation sorting itself out or the person running the instance testing things.

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MentalEdgereply
sopuli.xyz

Yeah so like I explain in this very post, the links wont work until at least one user on your instance manually uses search to find and sub to a community. And subbing to just one wont bring all the communities on that other instance to yours. Each one needs to have least one sub, to be searchable without the exact name/url and to appear in "all". I explain how to trigger the initial connection for links that don't work on your instance, at the start of the list.

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