For context on the topic, please read this post.
After reaching out to the Lemmy.ml admins and Lemmy developers regarding the defederation of ani.social from Lemmy.ml and the exclusion of ani.social from join-lemmy.org, they have chosen to remain defederated from ani.social for “[containing] a lot of sexualized images and partial nudity” which goes against their rule against pornography.
However, because they have found no evidence of CSAM in ani.social, they have agreed to merge our pull request to include ani.social in join-lemmy.org.
We’d like to thank the Lemmy.ml admins and Lemmy developers for their careful consideration of our request. Although we had hoped to federate once again with Lemmy.ml, we believe they have valid reasons to remain defederated. We hope that this may be revisited in the future as Lemmy continues to evolve.
We apologize to our local users who regularly visit Lemmy.ml communities. If you wish to continue accessing Lemmy.ml communties, we suggest moving to an instance that is federated with both Lemmy.ml and ani.social.
me and rainshadow got banned, they got auto removed. You see comments from tamlyn removed on manga commynity as well for example.
TIL that getting banned from an instance removes all the content you have ever submitted. A side-effect of ani.social being defederated is that the posts made prior to defederation are still visible in the community that was federated to the ani.social instance (see here).