Due to a quirk of how federation works, you cannot discover communities or magazines through search or on "all", until at least one other user on your instance has manually triggered federation to be "initialized" by searching for that exact community/magazine.

I thought it would be good to keep a list to help us all find the places wed like to participate in. So far, I've found, and created some of what is listed below. If you know about or start a new community/magazine, comment! I'll update the list.

Save this post so you can come back to it as it grows.

Mods of anime communities/magazines, consider copying parts of, or the whole list, into your sidebars.

On Lemmy, if a link does not work on your instance, it into search. If browsing from Kbin, replace /c/ in url with /m/ or enter the community name with an @ instead of ! in search.

Users on Lemmy.ml

Your instance does not federate with ani.social, the largest (only?) anime centered instance. Consider setting up an account somewhere else, or maybe on ani.social.

Anime instances

• ani.social
• bookwyr.me Ascendance of a Bookworm

Recommended communities

Some basic communities most people should like. I've marked other communities that I personally follow as "active" but other communities are also alive. And if the aren't, make em alive :D

• !anime@ani.social
• !manga@ani.social
• !animemes@ani.social
• !anime_art@ani.social

General

• !animewallpapers@ani.social Active
• !sliceoflifeanime@lemmy.world
• !anime@lemmy.world
• !hololive@lemmy.world Active
• !vtubervids@ani.social Active
• !vtubers@sh.itjust.works Active
• !yuri@lemmy.world
• !ghibli@lemmy.world
• !wholesomeyuri@reddthat.com Active
• !visualnovels@lemmy.comfysnug.space
• !anime_manga_games@monyet.cc
• !magicalgirls@lemmy.world
• !moe_image_music@kbin.earth

Memes

• !animemes@ani.social Active
• !chainsawfolk@lemmy.world Active
• !anime_irl@ani.social Active
• !linuxanimemes@ani.social
• !yurimemes@lemmy.blahaj.zone Active
• !animenocontext@reddthat.com

"Moe" art communities

these are all kept very active by me, personally

• !fitmoe@lemmy.world
• !murdermoe@lemmy.world
• !streetmoe@ani.social
• !fangmoe@ani.social
• !cybermoe@ani.social
• !midriffmoe@ani.social
• !kemonomoe@ani.social
• !streetmoe@ani.social
• !thiccmoe@ani.social
• !officemoe@ani.social
• !meganemoe@ani.social
• !gothmoe@ani.social
• !militarymoe@ani.social
• !morphmoe@ani.social
• !cybermoe@ani.social
• !smolmoe@ani.social
• !maidmoe@ani.social

Other art communities

• !animepics@reddthat.com Active
• !thighdeology@ani.social Active
• !animefeet@ani.social Active
• !boorudump@lemmy.blahaj.zone
• !animearmor@lemmy.zip
• !biganimetiddies@piefed.zip

Vocaloid

• !vocaloid@ani.social Active
• !hatsunemiku@lemmy.world Active
• !KasaneTeto@ani.social Active

Specific anime franchises

• !pokemon@sopuli.xyz
• !dandadan@ani.social Active
• !bocchitherock@sopuli.xyz Very active
• !dungeonmeshi@ani.social Very active
• !nokotan@ani.social Very active
• !netsphere@sopuli.xyz Works of Tsutomu Nihei
• !opm@lemmy.world Active
• !onepiece@lemmy.world Active
• !kon@lemmy.world
• !madokamagica@lemmy.world
• !yuruyuri@lemmy.world
• !poputepipikku@lemmy.world
• !hidamarisketch@lemmy.world
• !kinmoza@lemmy.world
• !chainsawman@feddit.de
• !overlord@sopuli.xyz Active
• !gundam@possumpat.io
• !oshi_no_ko@lemmy.bunbi.net
• !luckystar@lemmy.world
• !nichijou@lemmy.world
• !azumangadaioh@lemmy.world
• !gintama@lemmy.world
• !nonnonbiyori@lemmy.world
• !hitoribocchi@lemmy.world
• !haruhi@lemmy.world
• !evangelion@lemmy.world
• !kakegurui@reddthat.com
• !lovelive@lemmy.world
• !precure@lemmy.world
• !touhou@ani.social Active
• !neptunia@lemmy.world Active
• !madokamagica@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz
• !aobanime@bookwormstory.social Ascendance of a Bookworm
• !alitabattleangel@reddthat.com
• !bangdream@lemmy.world
• !d4dj@lemmy.world
• !nikke@lemmy.world
• !girlsfrontline@lemmy.world
• !GirlsFrontline2Exilium@sh.itjust.works

I've been trying to drum up activity in the !rwby@sh.itjust.works community, if that counts as anime enough? Mostly I've been posting fanart because there's a lot of it out there.

I know there's not really any love lost between the RWBY fandom and the greater anime fandom so I'll accept if that's something most would rather avoid. Either way, thanks for the list and all you're doing for the art communities <3

I doubt anyone here would mind.

You can also crosspost from a small community, to bigger ones with overlapping content. That gets a subset of people from the big community to check out where the post came from.

Interesting, I built a crawler into my federated platforms so it looks at the local community lists on instances it knows about and pulls them into search. It seemed like an obvious solution, albeit an expensive one you don't do too often.

(゜o゜) I didn't even think about that. I never cross-posted even when I actively used reddit (like 5 years ago) but that's a neat idea. Cheers for that <3

Please remove !okbuddybocchi@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz. Instance no longer exists.

Add:

• !bangdream@lemmy.world
• !d4dj@lemmy.world

No Revue Starlight to complete the Bushiroad collection :(