Since a bunch of new users are arriving from Reddit (including me) maybe it would make sense to port the /r/anime bot that creates episode discussions to Lemmy so there’s regular content here?

The bot is open source: https://github.com/r-anime/holo

Looking at the source it should not be so difficult to add an option to post to Lemmy as well.

Thoughts?

Would something like this be allowed? @N3DSdude@lemmy.ml @Nami@lemmy.ml

  • yeettherich13@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Episode discussion is the main thing I enjoyed about r/anime so some form of that would be amazing here.

    • Domi@lemmy.secnd.meOPEnglish
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      2 years ago

      I don’t think a weekly thread makes sense for this because you will be scrolling past spoilers for episodes and shows you didn’t even watch yet.

      • HarvesterOfEyes@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        2 years ago

        That’s a good point, completely forgot about spoilers. I guess if people are fine with tagging spoilers and the thread being full of those, it could work but it’s not ideal, imo.

    • sealneaward@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Yeah, maybe we should revisit it when the Reddit exodus happens and there are more users. I’m behind on the season anyways.

      I’m assuming Lemmy has a good system for hiding spoilers in comments?

      • HarvesterOfEyes@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        2 years ago

        Domi made a good point, people won’t want to see spoilers of episodes they haven’t watched yet. Forgot about that. I guess it could work if people tagged spoilers but then it would just be a thread full of posts inside spoiler tags.

        As for the system, eh, it’s ok:

        Example

        This is a spoiler

        But I couldn’t see it on Jerboa, only when using Lemmy through a browser. Maybe I’ve missed it or it hasn’t been implemented yet?

        EDIT: Yep, spoiler tags don’t work on Jerboa, as far as I can tell.

  • awdsns@feddit.deEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I was going to just manually make a post for seasonal episodes as I watch them, but if you want to automate it, why not?

    Just maybe initially limit it to the more popular shows, otherwise I also think it might overwhelm this still small community.

    • mighty_alfredo@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      2 years ago

      The trick would be to define the difference between popular/small. Especially early each season when everything is fair game.

      • awdsns@feddit.deEnglish
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        2 years ago

        For the still running season, why not just take the top 10 from the /r/anime ranking. Although I agree it’s hard to draw a hard limit, you need to do it somewhere. And if someone misses their favorite show, they can still post a thread themselves.

        I’d wager that next month this community will not be that small anymore, then it could be ramped up.

        • Roverseer@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          2 years ago

          I’d wager that next month this community will not be that small anymore, then it could be ramped up.

          To hasten that process, a subtle information drive on r/anime and other anime-related subs about Lemmy could be done. The problem is with the login process and the slight learning curve that Lemmy comes with. Hope the devs solve it sooner and streamline it better.