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Manga General Discussion Thread - RIP MangaDex Edition [2025, Week 21] (ani.social)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by wjs018@ani.social to c/manga@ani.social

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Welp, it's been a good run, but it is seeming more and more likely that the age of MangaDex is over. With the wave of over 7000 takedown requests and policy changes requiring explicit rights or permission to upload, scanlators have largely stopped using the site.

So, what comes next? I don't know, but let's chat about it. Additionally, feel free to use this thread like you would any other weekly general thread by sharing about what you read this past week, asking for recommendations, or questions.

Like normal, please be careful with spoilers. I wrote a guide about spoilers in case you need a refresher on how to handle them (also linked in the sidebar).

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[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Decentralize. Ideally: federate, with redundancy.

If it's piracy then let's fucking act like it.

[–] creamlike504@jlai.lu 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Serious: how would you federate something like mangadex?

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Probably however Mastodon does it, but for more than four pictures at once.

What'd be great is if cross-site reblogs became independent. E.g. if someone posts on instance A and someone else references it on instance B, and the original post goes down on instance A, the copy on instance B is unaffected. And is possibly treated as original to instance B, if someone references the copy on instance A, and there's no working link to an original post on instance A.

[–] creamlike504@jlai.lu 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is that how it works? I thought content is only hosted on the original server, and each instance only shows a temporary copy at best.

If every instance is duplicating the content of every other instance, wouldn't they crumble under the hosting costs in... hours?

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

That is not how it works; it is what I would like.

And for a niche like exclusively hosting several dozen pages of translated comics at a time, every instance duplicating the whole database would not take that much space. Even if it's only a cache - one terabyte would go a looong way. Certainly long enough for anything popular to be recognized as missing and manually rehosted.