They are very useful and autolovepon automatically creates discussion threads which I think will help keep the sub alive.
Roboragi linkes the anime mentioned to MAL and other sites which is super neat and useful.
Another alternative is to run it on a different Anime community on a different instance. Either way, one moderator (probably the one who created this community) has made no comments since doing so, and the other hasn’t made a comment or submission in 14 days. The last (and only) logged moderation action is from 26 days ago.
My ultimate point here is that if you are interested in growing a community but the people who have the ability to exert influence over what sticks and what doesn’t is not being responsive, some options available here are to get the unresponsive people out, or to go elsewhere to work with people who are.
Well, I’ve already tried asking the guy that runs !anime@lemmy.world, but he turned me down.
According to lemmyverse, that’s the only other major English language general anime community, hence my invitation to that other guy to run away with me and build a new community together.
There is !Anime@kbin.social too which has 2+k subscribers, but that’s on kbin so the API is different.
Unfortunately r/anime doesn’t seem to be in a hurry to leave, and none of the anime communities on Lemmy / kbin seem to have reached critical mass yet.
I wouldn’t mind checking out a new community if you build one, but I’m afraid it’ll probably struggle for at least a while before there will be enough content. That said, nothing’s going to happen if no one spends the effort, so definitely don’t be discouraged.
I’m specifically thinking of starting a community exclusively for episode discussions. That way it’s easier to moderate and won’t directly compete with the other existing communities.
Who knows? It might even be possible to set up some sort of web-ring where we promote discussion threads by cross-posting them on partner communities and in return we direct discussion users back to partner communities for non-episode stuff. That feels very Fediverse, doesn’t it?
