Do you use the Fediverse (Pleroma, Mastodon, or Misskey)? All three platforms use the same protocol, ActivityPub, so you can easily communicate with users on Misskey even if you’re on Pleroma, for example. Misskey is a Japanese technology, which is pretty fascinating on its own. It seems that nearly everyone using it is Japanese.

After Elon Musk bought the anti-social media network Twitter, rebranded it as "Ex-Twitter," and turned it into a platform spreading falsehoods, hatred, and unreason, millions of people joined the Fediverse in protest.

I have a Pleroma account that I use to post about Japan. If you're interested in exploring the Fediverse, register an account and let's talk about Japan and language learning!

Some Pleroma instances for new users:

freesoftwareextremist.com
poa.st
eientei.org
shitposter.world

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🎧 JapanesePod101 Audio Source for AJT Japanese

Published a new audio source. It is based on audio files from JapanesePod101. You can install it by following the instructions here.

Repo link: https://github.com/Ajatt-Tools/jpod_pronunciations_index

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Updated AJT Japanese

When using the audio search dialog to search pronunciations, the add-on searches on Forvo in addition to the enabled audio sources.

demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9e7CkXSdYok

add-on link: https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1344485230

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mpvacious v0.40 has been released

What's Changed

・Join sentence fields and separate joined fields by newline by emiham
・fix forgotten refactoring for update_notes by cemal-efe-g
・fix: stop ctrl+b sentence duplication by kuator
・Add support for ankiconnect api key by iamllama

https://github.com/Ajatt-Tools/mpvacious/releases/tag/v0.40

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Warning‼️

Do not install Anki 25.02.1. Anki 25.02.1 removes Japanese pitch accent information from notes if the information was generated by AJT Japanese. And it does so without any warning.

Example of what AJT Japanese usually generates:

<span class="ajt__word_info" part_of_speech="noun" pitch="センコー:heiban" style="color: #3366CC;"> 専攻[せんこう]</span>

What is left after running Anki:

<span class="ajt__word_info" style="color: #3366CC;"> 専攻[せんこう]</span>

You will lose pitch accent information on your cards if you install 25.02.1.

Install Anki 25.02.4 instead. It appears to have fixed the problem.

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Should I write each word once or many times while practicing handwriting?

https://tatsumoto.neocities.org/blog/should-i-write-each-word-many-times

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Many people have asked where they can find the GNU/Linux command line book I mentioned in a previous post. Here's the PDF. Now you can learn about Linux in Japanese!

A huge thanks to ニキータ from our chat for providing us with the PDF!

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What's actually the best way to find easy anime?

https://tatsumoto.neocities.org/blog/whats-actually-the-best-way-to-find-easy-anime

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🛸 Updated CroPro

When using web search, direct links to media files are shown to make downloading individual files easy.

https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1772763629

In The Dotfiles, you can find a noscript to automatically download files when clicking a link.

https://github.com/tatsumoto-ren/dotfiles/blob/main/.local/bin/linkhandler

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GNU/Jihad is no longer our mascot! Many people weren't familiar with this meme, which left them confused or even put off. We've switched things up and now our new mascot is Kanade from Beast Tamer.

https://tatsumoto.neocities.org/

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Something happened to the ImmersionKit API that we use to search Japanese sentences online in the Cross Profile Search And Import Anki add-on. The API documentation hasn't been updated yet, so there's no clear way to diagnose or fix the issue. Expect the "Web Search" feature to be non-functional.

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mpvacious v0.41

https://github.com/Ajatt-Tools/mpvacious/releases/tag/v0.41

What's Changed
・ support %f tag for full video path in note tagging by Baba-Yagan in #145
・ remove full-width spaces and duplicated spaces in subnoscripts by NamelessAssassin in #146
・ fix pattern error introduced in #146 by NamelessAssassin in #147
・ Fix shadowing of Lua’s built-in type() function by renaming parameter in create_job by cnra in #144
・ fix blank filename by NamelessAssassin in #149
・ Fix: Custom audio filters and loudnorm do not work with ffmpeg enabled by carpelli in #150

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Updated AJT Japanese

1️⃣ Expanded the built-in pitch accent database using Wadoku data. AJT Japanese now includes pitch accents for 377,552 words.
2️⃣ Added an option to analyze known kanji. Press "AJT" > "Analyze known kanji...".

🔗 Add-on link: https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1344485230

If the add-on stops working or crashes, report the issue in our chat and temporarily install an older release.

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kaikki-to-rikaitan releases rearranged

There's a new GitHub rule that limits each release to 1,000 files. This affects our Kaikki dictionaries for Rikaitan, since there are several thousand dictionary files. As a workaround, we've grouped dictionaries so each definition language has its own tag. For example, the latest release is v25.10.12, so to download dictionaries with English definitions, get the files from the v25.10.12_en tag:

✅ The downloads table has been updated accordingly.

Because of this change we now have dozens of tags per release, and none of them can be marked "latest." We hope to find another host for the dictionaries to avoid this limitation.

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Anki devs are trying to ruin our add-ons again.

https://github.com/ankitects/anki/pull/4289#issuecomment-3399071858

Protest if you don't want Anki to be taken away from you.

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Today I updated the following add-ons:

AJT Autocopy
AJT Browser Play Button
AJT Card Management
AJT CroPro
AJT Flexible Grading
AJT Japanese
AJT Media Converter
AJT Merge Notes
AJT Mortician
AJT ResetEase

The update fixes a bug in Anki that caused menus added by add‑ons to be repositioned — the "About" menu moved from under "AJT" to "Help." This affected only macOS users. If you still use macOS, consider switching to GNU/Linux to avoid similar issues in the future.

If you encounter any problems with these add‑ons, please let me know.

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Updated AJT CroPro - Cross Profile Search and Import

Attempted to mitigate some issues with remote search. However, media files still don't work.

https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1772763629

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anime-trannoscription

A GitHub repository where you can transcribe anime, share and download trannoscriptions.

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