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.ml
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    1 year ago

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

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      1 year ago

      I read all episode discussions about Overlord when I was binge watching it and it was glorious. I second your feeling.

    • Domi@lemmy.secnd.meOP
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      1 year 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.

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        1 year 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.

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      1 year 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?

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        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.

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    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.

    • Domi@lemmy.secnd.meOP
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      1 year ago

      Have to disagree with that, the only thing worse than posts without comments are no posts at all. Especially since the bot also provides info about the show like where it’s streaming and past episode discussions.

      I would prefer a few initial empty posts for shows that nobody watches (yet) than none at all, it is a sign that something is going on.

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    1 year ago

    I think if it doesn’t result in the community becoming mostly bot spam, why not?

    But it likely needs a rewrite to work with Lemmy.

    If you have a RSS feed source for new anime episodes then a bot already exists.

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    1 year ago

    I would really love this! One of the few reasons I’d hop on to r/anime Just to get into the discussions for the latest MHA or Demon Slayer

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    That has to be done when we have more subscribers. Right now, it isn’t difficult to do it by hand, I mean, there’s only a handful of people subscribed here, and having an OP makes it more personal.

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      1 year ago

      While true, a lot of people are afraid of creating new posts so there might be shows for which there are no discussion threads because nobody wanted to be the first one.

      Having an existing thread for each episode helps with that.

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    1 year ago

    Personally, I only watch a series once a season completed. So it’d not be of interest to me. But I can see how it can be useful for those that do.

    Would it be one post per anime per episode? Isn’t that too much, overweighing other kinds of posts?

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      You can always come back after binging and look at what people thought back then.

      At least that’s what I did when I binged a show after it aired and there was an interesting episode.

      Would it be one post per anime per episode? Isn’t that too much, overweighing other kinds of posts?

      Depends, on Reddit it is one post per episode of every anime for a season but population is a lot higher there so it blends in quite nicely.

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    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.

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

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        1 year 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.

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          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.

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            I tried mentioning and linking this community on /r/anime and got my comments deleted because advertising other communities is not allowed there. But after messaging the mods about it, they seem to be aware of the need for an alternative that isn’t Discord and seem to be cooking something up as a contingency for an /r/anime exodus.

            Just mentioning Lemmy in general seems to be fine though and has been done several times in the blackout thread.