Not familiar with moderation capabilities on PieFed, but something that can aid when moderating is having RSS tracking your communities. Even if the post gets deleted, if the RSS reader fetched the post in the time frame before that, it gets stored in your reader's (preferably persistent) cache.
::: spoiler Original
Sources will be divided into categories based on content types available, and so a same source may appear in multiple categories. And if a category becomes too overarching, please suggest how to better divide!
Also some cases of DRM are blurrier. Some may consider DRM-free as simply not requiring validation, while watermarks and other means of tracking the owner if the files are leaked may be seen as DRM to others. When I know about such cases, I will include the source in the list but with a note about the potential DRM measure.
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::: spoiler Updated
Sources will be divided into categories based on content types available, and so a same source may appear in multiple categories. And if a category becomes too bloated with entries, please suggest how to better divide it!
Also some cases of DRM are blurrier. Some may consider DRM-free as simply not requiring validation. Others may consider watermarks and other means of tracking the owner if the files are leaked as DRM. If a platform has such blurrier cases and I know of, I will leave a note explaining.
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Yet to check:
SomaFM (I forgor)
Bandwagon (can't figure out how to access the dummy purchase I made to test)
Funkwhale (too tired after Bandwagon)
Removed:
Nigel Stanford's store: No longer offering purchase options, only redirecting to other stores.
Updated:
Red Candle Games: Added the mention "only OSTs for the games they developed"
Added to "Music":
Mirlo [ActivityPub-compatible but only found the linked instance]
Wasn't there also Funkwhale and Bandwagon as ActivityPub-compatible DRM-free music stores?
But besides those, there's others, though each with their caveats, like GOG/Steam/Itchio being game OST-focused, ITunes being kinda not DRM-free (besides only allowing downloads through their launcher), Qobuz/Amazon/7Digital being geolocked in 3rd world countries to my knowledge, Recochoku geolocked everywhere but Japan, etc.
A bit of cynicism goes a long way, so while hoping for the better (and pushing if ever needed), still worth leveraging their catalogue being DRM-free to back things up 🙏
Mitra users - In the interface, click the 3 dots above "Follow" and copy the link from the "Atom feed" button. Alternatively, to get the same feed, get the link of the account and replace @ for feeds/users/, e.g. https://mitra.social/@weekinfediverse → https://mitra.social/feeds/users/weekinfediverse.
Added to "Other stores, store-adjacent and catalogue-esque sites":
Limited Run Games - go to either/each https://limitedrungames.com/collections/* page, clear the filters if any are applied, and append .atom at the end of the link, e.g. https://limitedrungames.com/collections/the-lr-vault.atom.
Not directly related to anime but to representations of magic in general, but this reminds me of the speed up spell "haste" in Final Fantasy II (PSP) and Final Fantasy X. In FFII, iirc no glyph appears, and the character gets so fast that in the initial peak, he/she runs off to one side of the screen and come back at the other. In X, a glyph appears, but it is a spherical clockwork-like glyph instead.
In a more recent work, now back at anime, magic used by humans in Dragon Raja has audio and visual representations, the voice of the caster distorting, a mist coming out of the caster's moth iirc, and both this mist and the eyes of the caster glowing.
Dragon Raja, apparently making 2D animation in a 3D software, probably is what allows this non-glyph type of representation. By extension, FFX using a 3D engine probably is what allows and even facilitates this type of 3D glyph instead. And FFII, though 2D, is from before the glyph trend, thus preserving the old style.
And this makes me think, maybe the 2D glyphs are used in manga as a way to make easier to represent magic in a purely 2D and static medium, and this ends up causing a habit which evolves to a culture over time.
Curious Archive has a recent video on representation of magic btw, though iirc it's a Nebula exclusive. =/
Besides, and related to "not being a platform", it helps break the idea of everyone having to share the same space with everyone. If two groups can't have a healthy relationship, it is healthier for them to cut ties with each other. Meanwhile, the oligarchic platforms being as big and with barely any internal borders makes for the toxic environment of places like Reddit and Twitter that predates recent polemics.
Would "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time" count as underrated? I rarely see people commenting about it at least.
Not familiar with moderation capabilities on PieFed, but something that can aid when moderating is having RSS tracking your communities. Even if the post gets deleted, if the RSS reader fetched the post in the time frame before that, it gets stored in your reader's (preferably persistent) cache.
Great as a liminal image though, and maybe a crosspost candidate to !liminalspace@lemmy.world
Maybe try genres you normally wouldn't? Gaming is rather diverse in that regard.
They could start releasing on GOG, just saying.
Only one there was released iirc apparently due to inherited contractual obligations from a company they bought.
Updated the second and third paragraphs:
::: spoiler Original Sources will be divided into categories based on content types available, and so a same source may appear in multiple categories. And if a category becomes too overarching, please suggest how to better divide!
Also some cases of DRM are blurrier. Some may consider DRM-free as simply not requiring validation, while watermarks and other means of tracking the owner if the files are leaked may be seen as DRM to others. When I know about such cases, I will include the source in the list but with a note about the potential DRM measure. :::
::: spoiler Updated Sources will be divided into categories based on content types available, and so a same source may appear in multiple categories. And if a category becomes too bloated with entries, please suggest how to better divide it!
Also some cases of DRM are blurrier. Some may consider DRM-free as simply not requiring validation. Others may consider watermarks and other means of tracking the owner if the files are leaked as DRM. If a platform has such blurrier cases and I know of, I will leave a note explaining. :::
Yet to check:
Removed:
Updated:
Added to "Music":
Oooooooooooooh
Wasn't there also Funkwhale and Bandwagon as ActivityPub-compatible DRM-free music stores?
But besides those, there's others, though each with their caveats, like GOG/Steam/Itchio being game OST-focused, ITunes being kinda not DRM-free (besides only allowing downloads through their launcher), Qobuz/Amazon/7Digital being geolocked in 3rd world countries to my knowledge, Recochoku geolocked everywhere but Japan, etc.
@mark@programming.dev https://ci-en.dlsite.com/creator/%7Bnumeric_ID_of_the_creator%7D/article
Afaik the list of posts is always public, even if the contents of the post are occasionally paid.
A bit of cynicism goes a long way, so while hoping for the better (and pushing if ever needed), still worth leveraging their catalogue being DRM-free to back things up 🙏
Game link: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4383840/SANASANA
RSS if anyone wants to follow on its announcements (pick whichever you want, they pull the same posts):
Forgot to link the post:
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/games_at_risk_of_being_removed_from_gogs_catalog_tracking_thread/post962
Added to "Fediverse instances":
@forfeeds/users/, e.g.https://mitra.social/@weekinfediverse→https://mitra.social/feeds/users/weekinfediverse.Added to "Unofficial ones":
Was reading on the site and RSC. Apparently it is decentralized like ActivityPub?
Added to "Other stores, store-adjacent and catalogue-esque sites":
https://limitedrungames.com/collections/*page, clear the filters if any are applied, and append.atomat the end of the link, e.g.https://limitedrungames.com/collections/the-lr-vault.atom.Which game of the series on which wiki says that?
That sounds even worse imo, like Vulcanus wanting to make a little trolling against the poor fellow's legacy. 😬
Screenshots maybe.
One of the originals I looked up at random has the photographer's watermark at the bottom, past where the image here at the post ends: https://x.com/okirakuoki/status/1978302262804963728
Not directly related to anime but to representations of magic in general, but this reminds me of the speed up spell "haste" in Final Fantasy II (PSP) and Final Fantasy X. In FFII, iirc no glyph appears, and the character gets so fast that in the initial peak, he/she runs off to one side of the screen and come back at the other. In X, a glyph appears, but it is a spherical clockwork-like glyph instead.
In a more recent work, now back at anime, magic used by humans in Dragon Raja has audio and visual representations, the voice of the caster distorting, a mist coming out of the caster's moth iirc, and both this mist and the eyes of the caster glowing.
Dragon Raja, apparently making 2D animation in a 3D software, probably is what allows this non-glyph type of representation. By extension, FFX using a 3D engine probably is what allows and even facilitates this type of 3D glyph instead. And FFII, though 2D, is from before the glyph trend, thus preserving the old style.
And this makes me think, maybe the 2D glyphs are used in manga as a way to make easier to represent magic in a purely 2D and static medium, and this ends up causing a habit which evolves to a culture over time.
Curious Archive has a recent video on representation of magic btw, though iirc it's a Nebula exclusive. =/
Besides, and related to "not being a platform", it helps break the idea of everyone having to share the same space with everyone. If two groups can't have a healthy relationship, it is healthier for them to cut ties with each other. Meanwhile, the oligarchic platforms being as big and with barely any internal borders makes for the toxic environment of places like Reddit and Twitter that predates recent polemics.