I think there's a fear that if a niche subreddit goes private permanently that community will be lost unless there's an analogue set up here.

There's going to be a learning curve, and I'd imagine that specific instances will eventually pop up as the user base grows in size and grows more comfortable with the platform.

Mastodon needs to absorb a critical mass of the users who drive content on Twitter in order to be a viable replacement. A Lemmy community only needs enough members to keep itself fairly active.

I think for now the posts should be manually created. Having too many posts without any comments would make this place look like a ghost town.

The dream would be to have episode discussion generation built into a separate instance of lemmy dedicated to anime stuff, but we're not there yet.

That sounds like a good idea once things get going a bit more. For now, I feel like this lemmy community is mostly just to gauge interest/willingness to switch over and we can figure out more long-term stuff once it's clear that there's enough buy-in.

It's a really elegant way to do it. No part of the system makes the other parts feel sub-optimal or redundant.

Hijiyama from 13 Sentinels. While everyone else is figuring out how time travel works, he spends most of the game scrounging for change to buy yakisoba pan.

I'm rocking a similar avatar. Never let them reject you again.