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Reddit mods are organizing blackouts to protest against API changes (www.reddit.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Some of the planned blackouts will be temporary, others plan to shut their subreddits down indefinitely in protest.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah. As much as I want to abandon Reddit completely if they go through with this, I'll probably be forced to use new reddit and the official app because most communities probably wont migrate at all. There are many niche communities that I'm subscribed to, like related to a specific anime/LN series that's not too big.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just for curiosity: which is the anime/light novel series?

On-topic: I hope that other communities start migrating, once Reddit's downwards spiral becomes too hard to ignore. I'm also considering to set up a few weaboo communities and one for conlangs, once I find a good instance for that. (lemmy.ml is already rather overburdened; perhaps someone could set up an instance for this sort of geeky stuff?)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There are many but a few that come to mind that I've been browsing a lot recently are:

r/KumoDesu : The final volume (volume 16) is coming out on the 20th and I've started rereading the series. I actually finished reading the WN a couple of days ago (I love this series so much asdfaklmsv).
r/IsekaiOjisan : Just plain fun
r/Mashle : Not small but still one of my favourites. I don't watch shonen a lot but this is a great manga.

I've considered hosting a couple of fediverse (and nextcloud) servers before but servers are expensive 😞
I mainly want an exact alternative to r/Anime and r/Manga for the episode discussions and I also want r/WritingPrompts and r/Animemes because those are my gotos to kill time.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've been meaning to check out Kumo for a while. I'm a big fan of Honzuki no Gekokujou and apparently there's a lot of overlap in the fan base.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I watched a little over one season of Honzuki no Gekokujou and I didn't find too interesting tbh (I only watched that many episodes because I was really bored at the time). It just felt like a "base building game" (I can't think of any other analogy for some reason). Is there something I'm missing, like the anime not adapting the source material well? Because I see a lot of people who like but I can't seem to understand why. To be clear, I don't think it's that bad but it seems more popular than it should be.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The beginning is a bit slow, I will admit, but the first season is a very good adaptation overall (later seasons skip a lot). So maybe it's just not your cup of tea. I don't think I follow the base-building analogy 🤔

As for its popularity, I think it does a lot of things really well, better than most other series, and the sum of it is superb.

Characterization: there are almost no 1-dimensional characters. Even random side characters, or seemingly comic relief characters, have their own motivations and goings-on outside of what Myne (the unreliable narrator) sees. These are often revealed to the reader in side stories, and can recontextualize a lot of what's happening.
World building: we start with a straightforward medieval city. Then a small bit of magic is introduced. Then we find out about a bit how the country is governed, then more about how magic works, histories, politics...all in a satisfying way, because Kazuki-sensei planned the whole story from the beginning. Which brings me to:
Foreshadowing: EVERYTHING is a Chekov's gun. There's a lot of stuff to find on a re-read, and the theorycrafting people come up with in the weekly chapter releases is a lot of fun too.
Themes: this series does not shy away from serious themes. Poverty, children starving, sexual assault, the ramifications of a strict caste system, slavery...There's a lot that sucked about medieval times. But also:
Humor: absolutely great comedic moments. It's rare for a book to make me laugh out loud. For example, there's a scene where Myne hosts what is essentially a J-Pop concert and it's just nuts.

I could go on...tl;dr it's a great series!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Looking back I'm not sure what I meant by base building game here. I usually use that to describe Tensura (I don't like it personally. I dropped it after 1 season. It felt like there wasn't any threat or anything interesting to work towards in the plot).

In the case of Honzuki I think the reason I felt bored was because the goal of the plot felt too vague. But maybe I'll give it another try because apart from that, I 100% agree with all your points.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

If you do, I'd suggest reading over watching. The anime skips a lot, especially season 3.