Yea I get that. I was being facetious with my comment.

Tearmoon Empire by another name

Too early to tell what set of tropes and typical story arcs it’ll go through, but it works well as an establishing point.

I think people will flock to wherever there’s activity. Then my random series of thoughts:

Firstly, there’s some rumblings about setting up some kind of multi-community feature (either server-side at the community level or client-side at the user-interface level), so hopefully this comes around sooner rather than later.

Secondly, Lemmy does support cross-posting formally (for example, if you submit an identical link to multiple communities, there will be a small bit of additional text indicating it has been cross-posted and linking out to submissions elsewhere), but text-based cross-posts are not as technically featured (this might have changed, but when I last tried it merely appended a “crossposted from XYZLINK” to the start of the text body).

If a critical mass of people congregate, they may want the episode-posting bot to work on their community anyway.

The broader pragmatic perspective is it’s pretty evident there are a number of people interested in participating around anime and manga centric topics, but the fact that people are spread out across a variety of different communities makes it difficult to reach a critical mass for conversations to start self-sustaining themselves. If you and like-minded individuals are interested in committing the energy and effort to grow something, I’m definitely happy to come along and help out. Ultimately though, the addition or removal of automated episode-posting bots doesn’t really change the fact that it’s hard for incidental participants to stay engaged if there’s little conversation about the episodes or anime in general, and from my PoV the real “content” are in these discussions rather than in the submissions made. In some ways, a lot of these individual episode threads become mini-communities in and of themselves.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with starting something and then handing it off to someone else later either.

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.

If none of the mods have had made any comments recently, probably worth reaching out to an admin to see if you can get mod ownership temporarily.

An ambitious person could probably fork https://github.com/r-anime/holo and shimmy or re-do the API calls to have it target one (or more) Lemmy communities.