I now live closer to my anime addict friend, so I’ve been watching a lot more anime than usual lol. I’m a casual basic bitch anime fan. My top 5 is something like Frieren, DBZ, FMA/B (switch shows in the middle), Outlaw Star, Death Note.

For some of these I’ve only seen a few episodes, so I’m sorry if I give a bad review before getting to the good episodes.

Frieren

(seen 38 episodes)

I’m obsessed. Already seen all 38 episodes many times over lol. This show has some kind of sick pattern of breaking your heart and then healing it over and over again. It really excels at everything: slice of life, character writing, animation, music, action scenes (though infrequent), even the voice acting is great in both Japanese and English. This show can introduce a character and turn them into a fan favorite in record time. Every time there’s a post here asking for suggestions I have to hold myself back from responding with Frieren because I realize you guys are mostly bigger anime nerds than me and obviously know the most popular ones lol. 11/10 can’t wait for October 2027

RE: Zero

(seen 2 episodes)

I didn’t feel this one, and the characters felt cringe. I’m sure they grow over time but for now 4/10

Hellsing Ultimate

(seen 2 episodes)

I don’t think the writing or directing is great, except this show oozes style, Alucard is extremely cool. 7.5/10 I’ll probably watch more of this. And then I get to watch Abridged lol.

Jujutsu Kaisen

(seen 8 episodes)

This one is really cool, amazing animation. Character writing seems like it might be a slight weakness, like the conflict between the classes seemed a bit forced. 7.5/10

Solo Leveling

(seen 7 episodes)

Alright I actually hate this one lol. Animation is good, but I don’t like anything else. It’s like if you took One Punch Man and removed all the comedy, side characters, creativity, and Saitama’s personality. I’m sure the fights get good at some point because the animation is very good, but I need more than just action anyways. Even very action focused shows like DBZ have a lot more going for them. 1/10 sorry I know SL is really popular.

The Kingdoms of Ruin

(seen 2 episodes)

This seems like it might be good. It’s kinda overly dark just for the sake of being dark. Hard to judge the character/dialog writing at this point 6.5/10

Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure

(seen 26 episodes)

I knew this was gonna be goofy and over the top, but I didn’t expect it to also be really good. As over the top it is, it’s actually good writing and overflowing with creativity. 9/10 and next you’re going to say that Solo Leveling deserves a better score.

Fist of the North Star (2026)

(seen 9 episodes)

I wasn’t super familiar with the original but of course I knew “you are already dead” and had seen some clips. Don’t even bother with the English dub for this, gotta go with the Japanese. It’s mostly over the top fun. The CGI takes some getting used to, it’s not great but it’s fine. 5/10 it’s fun enough.

Daemons of the Shadow Realm

(seen 12 episodes)

I’m a huge fan of Fullmetal Alchemist, so I was hyped for this one. It’s good but actually kind of a let down at least in comparison. The hook isn’t nearly as strong, and most episodes don’t have much direction or any satisfying resolutions. The characters are pretty good, and the fights are good but not top tier. The English dub is good. 7/10 but I’ll definitely at least finish the season because I trust Hiromu Arakawa-sama.

One Punch Man season 3

This one is a bonus round because I was following it on release late 2025. What an utter failure of an adaptation. The only enjoyment I got out of this season is the qualities it lifted directly from the webcomic/manga. It’s hard to believe someone could take a golden IP like this and not give it the respect it deserves. It’s disrespectful to the art, but also just a really dumb business decision? As hard as the anime tried to ruin this season for me, I guess I’ll still give it a 5/10. Season 1 was a 10/10, season 2 was like an 8/10

Besides Custom feeds (Misskey’s “Antennas”), Catodon is the first Misskey fork that implements native hashtag following, like Mastodon. This has been one of the most requested features in the Firefish days, and I’m very happy that it is finally available.

With the recent additions of native Mastodon API support, Mastodon-compatible quotes and following hashtags, I think that the name choice for Catodon becomes clearer: I am actively trying to bridge the gap between Misskey and Mastodon, keeping/implementing the best features of both platforms - but also going beyond that, with unique features like the RSS feed, Custom timelines and of course the Lemmy-compatible Forums! After almost half a year of working on this pretty much daily, I feel that it’s finally starting to take shape and show its own character, moving far beyond being just a Sharkey fork.

cross-posted from: https://community.nodebb.org/post/107551 | !nodebb-development@community.nodebb.org

With temperatures reaching well into the 30s (in celsius of course :sunglasses:) in the Toronto area, we’re all firmly in summer mode :swimmer: :beach_with_umbrella: , but that won’t stop us from forging on ahead with new features and fixes for NodeBB!

There are improvements across ActivityPub federation, administrative tooling, and security hardening. Our ActivityPub integration receives bug fixes including duplicate handling, configurable rate limiting, and better error reporting, alongside new hooks for remote user lifecycle events. The registration queue and invitations are reorganized into a dedicated UI with a new “Reject All” bulk action and improved notification handling. Security reports have been coming in consistently throughout the month with valid security reports (though almost all AI discovered and generated). This led to stricter privilege checks on post diffs, crossposts, and GDPR exports, plus protection against username enumeration. The NodeBB team strongly encourages upgrading to v4.14.0 for the latest security fixes and federation improvements. The release also includes a new tx() translation helper, Benchpress escaping improvements, and a first-run categories onboarding modal for fresh installations.

Here are the high level changes you can expect to see when you upgrade from v4.13.0 to v4.14.0…

:globe_with_meridians: Federation Regression Fixes!

Around v4.12.0 or so, a number of regressions were unintentionally introduced as part of security fixes that severely hampered federation — especially with Lemmy-based instances and relays. We’ve resolved those regressions and Relay/Lemmy federation should resume within 24 hours after upgrading.

The public key fetch rate limiter logic was simplified and updated (due to it being faulty and not really working in the first place), streamlined some duplicate logic with Like/Dislike activities, improved the AP Errors reporting page in the ACP, added a parent traversal depth guard, fixed an issue where updates to scheduled topics were accidentally being federated out, and about a hundred other smaller bugs :)

:ballot_box_with_check: Registration Queue updates

The registration queue was moved out of the ACP, and invitations are also managed in this page now. A “reject all” button was added to allow admins to quickly reject every queued registrant in one fell swoop.

🔒 Privilege & Security Fixes

• Post diff access — Check topics:read privilege when loading post diffs
• Crossposts — Added source category privilege check to crossposts
• GDPR export — Prevented global moderators from performing GDPR data exports
• Nids ownership — Don’t mark nids as read/unread that you don’t own
• Upload privileges — Prevent uploading thumbnails without upload:image privilege; replaced extension-based MIME validation with content
  sniffing
• Username enumeration — Use dummy lockout key for non-existent users to prevent enumeration
• Category disabled flag — Check category disabled flag on getRaw

:interrobang: Benchpress Improvements

We use Benchpress as our templating engine. We updated our integration for security and performance. [@baris put together a thorough write-up for that one here](https://community.nodebb.org/topic/19364/upcoming-breaking-changes-for-4.14.0).

Miscellaneous

• First-run modal — New categories onboarding modal for fresh installations
• Dashboard warnings — Added localhost and URL mismatch warnings to admin dashboard notices
• Push notifications should work on Safari/iOS devices now (via the web-push plugin)

cross-posted from: !lemmy@lemmy.ml | https://retrolemmy.com/post/16169345

Nutomic:

This is implemented in the main branch now. If you want to develop a plugin for Lemmy, have a look at the RFC and the examples. If you have questions about plugin development, feel free to post in the Matrix dev chat, !lemmy@lemmy.ml or open an issue.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3562#issuecomment-2760779122

Examples in multiple languages: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-plugins#lemmy-plugins (only a few examples currently, more languages are possible including Python)

Anyone planning to start working on a plugin?