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- [Announcement] Lemmy.World and lemmy.dbzer0.com has defederated from ani.social
As of November 7, 2023 09:23 both Lemmy.World and lemmy.dbzer0.com have federated with us again. Thank you for quickly reviewing the situation and reversing your decision.
We hope that Lemmy.ml will follow soon.
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To anyone who is not familiar with the situation, please read our previous post for context.
Please do not say anything hateful toward the concerned instances' admins.
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What happened?
A few hours ago, Lemmy.World and lemmy.dbzer0.com has defederated from ani.social, following the events of Lemmy.ml defederating from ani.social on November 3.
Lemmy.World has given a censure on Fediseer with the reason being "loli". lemmy.dbzer0.com has not given a reason for defederation as of the moment.
We disagree with anyone claiming that ani.social intentionally and knowingly hosts CSAM. We would like to remind everyone that ani.social has a content policy regarding CSAM content since day one. Specifically, our content policy states the following:
> 7. Do not submit content depicting a child (both real and virtual) engaged or involved in explicit sexual activities. A child is defined as a person who is under 18 years old; or a person, regardless of age, who is presented, depicted or portrayed as under 18 years old.
To provide some context, the Lemmy developers excluded ani.social from the recently launched join-lemmy.org redesign without any clear reason provided. My pull request to remove ani.social from the exclude-list was denied for the reason being that ani.social is "full of CSAM". Shortly after, ani.social was defederated from Lemmy.ml. The full story may be found on the previous thread.
Numerous threads have since spawned, many of which have comments state that there is no evidence of the claim that ani.social is "full of CSAM" and that the decision was unfair. These threads include:
- https://ani.social/post/863176
- https://lemmy.ml/post/7406051
- https://lemmy.world/post/7714824
- https://sh.itjust.works/post/8411770
- https://lemmy.ml/post/7437529
We respectfully ask the admins of Lemmy.World, lemmy.dbzer0.com, and Lemmy.ml to review the situation and our policies, and consider reversing your decision if there is no evidence that ani.social intentionally and knowingly hosts CSAM.
What now?
If you are a user of ani.social and wish to see content from Lemmy.World and lemmy.dbzer0.com, we kindly ask you to move to a different instance that is federated with all three instances.
If you are a user of Lemmy.World or lemmy.dbzer0.com and wish to see content from ani.social, we kindly ask you to send a request to your respective admins to reverse their decisions after reviewing the situation.
To all other Fediverse instance admins, we kindly ask you to carefully review our instance and its policies before defederating from us.
To all ani.social users, please do not forget to report content that violates our content policy.
My personal thoughts
As the admin of ani.social, I sincerely apologize to all our users regarding the defederation from three major Lemmy instances. I believe that this is my fault for not communicating our policies clearly enough. I will continue working toward a solution regarding this matter so please be patient.
Thank you for reading this, and I appreciate everyone's support.
- [Announcement] Lemmy.ml has defederated from ani.social (and what this means for us)
Please do not say anything hateful to the Lemmy.ml admins or the developers. Before commenting on this thread, please read the post completely.
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We (ani.social) have been defederated from Lemmy.ml a few hours ago presumably for the reason of being "full of CSAM" which I disagree.
What happened?
The Lemmy developers recently launched the new redesigned join-lemmy.org webpage which provides information about Lemmy and a list of servers that people can join. The redesign looks great! It details a lot of new and useful stuff such as a categorized server list and mobile apps. However, I noticed that our instance (ani.social) was not in the list despite previously being there before the redesign.
After looking through the joinlemmy-site code, I discovered that ani.social was added to the "excluded" list in a commit a few weeks ago. I thought that this was a mistake so I made a pull request to remove us from the excluded list (and also to add our instance's category and language).
Unfortunately, the pull request was closed with a comment that reads "No, that is full of CSAM". The thread was locked so I couldn't reply. I tried to reach out to the developers via Matrix, politely explaining that ani.social has a content policy rule against CSAM which reads:
> 7. Do not submit content depicting a child (both real and virtual) engaged or involved in explicit sexual activities. A child is defined as a person who is under 18 years old; or a person, regardless of age, who is presented, depicted or portrayed as under 18 years old.
Unfortunately, my invitation was rejected and I did not hear back from them.
Shortly after, I discovered that Lemmy.ml had defederated from ani.social. The last post ani.social received from Lemmy.ml was just after the pull request was closed.
What does this mean?
This means that no user from ani.social can interact with communities from Lemmy.ml and vice versa. This affects those who subscribe to communities from that instance.
This also affects the anime community on Lemmy as a whole because the biggest anime discussion community resides on Lemmy.ml (!anime@lemmy.ml) in which their episode discussion bot, @shinobu@ani.social, is hosted here. It's very concerning that as an anime-themed instance, we're now completely disconnected from this community and other related communities.
This also affects ani.social in the long run as our exclusion from the join-lemmy.org webpage will reduce our visibility. The exclusion from join-lemmy.org and defederation from Lemmy.ml may also prompt other instance admins to defederate from us. Generally, ani.social will be seen in a very bad light.
As the admin of ani.social, I genuinely feel heartbroken after what had happened. Not only do I feel like I'm doing a poor job of building ani.social but I also feel like I've disrespected the work of the Lemmy developers. I really apologize to those who are affected by this. I hope that this is just a misunderstanding and I will do my best to resolve this problem.
- [suggestion] disable compression on uploadsani.social [suggestion] disable compression on uploads - AniSocial
I noticed on my Gura post the image became rather compressed. Since this is an anime themed group, there might be interest in avoiding that? If I’m mistaken my apologies. https://ani.social/post/616511 [https://ani.social/post/616511]
I noticed on my Gura post the image became rather compressed. Since this is an anime themed group, there might be interest in avoiding that? If I'm mistaken my apologies.
https://ani.social/post/616511
- [Announcement] Sever Maintenance: Upgrade to Lemmy v0.18.5 (2023-09-30 16:00 CST)status.ani.social Upgrade to Lemmy v0.18.5 | AniSocial
Welcome to AniSocial status page for real-time and historical data on system performance.
2023-09-30 16:19
Upgrade complete.
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We will be upgrading to Lemmy v0.18.5 on 2023-09-30 16:00 CST. During this time, this instance will be temporarily unavailable for approximately two hours as we perform the maintenance.You can view the instance status updates here.We apologize for any inconveniences. - [Announcement] Server Maintenance (2023-09-17 18:00 CST)status.ani.social General Server Maintenance | AniSocial
Welcome to AniSocial status page for real-time and historical data on system performance.
2023-09-17 18:53 CST Update:
The server maintenance is complete.
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Original message:
We will be conducting general server maintenance on 2023-09-17 18:00 CST. During this time, this instance will be temporarily unavailable for approximately two hours as we perform the maintenance.
You can view the instance status updates here.
We apologize for any inconveniences.
- [Completed Maintenance] Upgrade to Lemmy v0.18.4 - 08/09 0900 UTCstatus.ani.social Upgrade to Lemmy v0.18.4 | AniSocial
Welcome to AniSocial status page for real-time and historical data on system performance.
Upgrade complete. This message will be pinned for three days. If you run into any issues, please send us an email or leave a comment in this thread.
Thanks for being patient!
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We will be upgrading to Lemmy v0.18.4 on August 9 0900 UTC. During this time, this instance will be temporarily unavailable for approximately one hour as we perform the upgrade.You can view the instance status updates here.Thank you! - [Announcement] Upgraded to Lemmy v0.18.3 - 07/28 16:19 UTC
We have upgraded to Lemmy v0.18.3! You can view all the changes here.
If you encounter any issues, please send us an email or leave a comment in this thread. Thank you!
P.S. We've had so many new users come over the past weeks. Welcome to AniSocial!
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This announcement will be pinned for seven (3) days since the initial posting.
- [Maintenance] Upgrade to Lemmy v0.18.3 - 07/28 1600-1700 UTC
We will be upgrading to Lemmy v0.18.3 on July 28 4PM UTC. During this time, this instance will be temporarily unavailable for approximately one hour as we perform the upgrade.
You can view the instance status updates here: https://status.ani.social
Thank you!
- Help with looking up communities
Was wondering if I could just get some help with the searching communities on this instance. I'm trying to look at other communities like NBA@lemmy.world. It doesn't seem to show up in the search bar so when I try to modify the URL to take me to the community, this error shows up. It's a bit strange since lemmy.world is federated.
- [Announcement] If you got locked out of your account because of 2FA, send us an email.
We've received a few messages lately from people who got locked out of their accounts after enabling 2FA and not setting up the authenticator properly. To anyone else who got locked out because of this, you can send us an email at help@ani.social with the same email address you used to register. We'll remove 2FA from your account so you can set it up again.
There is an open issue about it on GitHub.
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Note: This post will be pinned until the 2FA issue has been resolved and until the 2FA implementation has been improved.
- [Announcement] Upgraded to Lemmy 0.18.1
We have upgraded to the latest stable version of Lemmy! You can view all the changes in the announcement page.
An important note for this instance:
We are now using ubergeek77's multiarch Docker image (thank you!). Prior to this, we were using masquernya's build script to build our own images which usually took a while. If you encounter any issues while using or interacting with AniSocial, please let us know in this thread or send us an email to help@ani.social.
P.S. We received a lot of new registrations over the past week. Welcome to AniSocial! We hope you enjoy your stay here!
This announcement will be pinned for seven (7) days since the initial posting.