Some alternatives you might want to consider:

!Anime@kbin.social

!anime@lemmy.world (it appears that @vole@lemmy.world might be rolling out their own episode discussion bot, which is something I’m looking forward to)

!anime@ani.social (no activity here, but it looks like a new community and they’re looking for a moderator)

I want Lemmy to succeed as well, but not at the cost of growing a community for a subreddit hoarder. The two of us being here is a step forward in ensuring the success of Lemmy.

The last action by a moderator on that c/ was from 27 days ago according to their mod log.

It’s really unfortunate that the largest anime community on Lemmy is operated by a person who currently “moderates” 292 subreddits on Reddit. And if any reasonable moderator can tell you, there’s no way you can possibly be able to split your time across that many subreddits.

In my honest opinion, literally any other anime community is better than the one owned by a subreddit hoarder. This entire idea of hoarding subreddits/communities goes against the single most important principle of Lemmy, which is federation.

But I can’t change your opinion. What you do next is up to you.

I think it wouldn’t hurt to upvote more than what you normally do on Reddit while you’re on Lemmy. The community here is smaller and it’ll benefit a lot of more people interacted with the site by upvoting.

I’m bouncing around Reddit and Lemmy. Won’t be contributing much to Reddit anymore and will be posting and commenting on Lemmy.

My gripe with !anime@lemmy.ml is that one of their mod (N3DSdude) is a subreddit hoarder on Reddit. Not only is he inactive in most of the subreddit he moderates on Reddit, he’s also inactive on Lemmy. This person has no interest in growing the community aside from hoarding as many communities on Lemmy as possible.

There needs to be another c/anime on a different instance.

You’ve raised another important thing I’ve never thought of: How do we even know how connected an instance is to other instances aside from hearing from other users. I didn’t even know Beehaw was defederated until you mentioned it.

But it hardly matters to the user because it’s all federated anyway

Unless you unknowingly joined a community that was defederated by everyone else.

The anime community. Seems awfully dead over here on Lemmy. :/

There must never be a single dominant instance. If one instance becomes too large, they end up having too much influential power. And with all that power, big corporations or power tripping admins will use that power to coerce other instances to do certain things. “Don’t want to follow our unilaterally-imposed rule? We’re gonna cut off your entire instance and your users will lose access to our communities.”

If Meta doesn’t get defederated, they will become the dominant instance. They already have the most amount of users since I’m assuming you can use your Facebook/Instagram account, they’ll have the most amount of user activity, and of course the most amount of power.