[Figs]

> Why would I want to do that?

Differences in policy. There are wildly different ideas about what is and isn't acceptable.

> Sure, you can pick a random one like fediverser.network apparently does. Looking at one line from the list, I see that r/manga points to ani.social/c/manga which has 561 subscribers, when lemmy.ml/c/manga has 3,480. What?

That's not random. There was drama. The lemmy.ml admins are hostile to a lot of anime-related content and drove off most of the community that was accumulating there last year. ani.social is where the active, non-tankie communities are now. It's run with what seem like fairly reasonable policies and actually welcomes the subject matter. If you were relatively happy with the handling of anime-related content on reddit a few years ago then the communities on ani.social are probably what you're looking for; it's a good recommendation.

[remram]

> That's not random. There was drama. The lemmy.ml admins are hostile (...)

That just makes it worse. Not only is it too large a field to bring a community together, but it's a minefield?!

[rglullis]

Your parent is exaggerating. The admins from .ml are not persecuting anyone, not exposing anyone and not even kicking out the existing subscribers that are ok with following the rules of the instance. The "drama" is just that they were clear they are not interested in hosting NSFW content and are not interested in providing a space for the hentai/loli/furry crowd. They defederated from ani.social because ani.social communities were posting loli, and that was it.