Mihon and several forks are still actively developed and both extension repos, one of which being Keiyoshi, are also still actively maintained. Where are you getting your information? Might want to stop listening to whoever is telling you this.

For OP: you could try something like xoxocomic. I haven’t gone through their library extensively so I’m not sure how much of what you’re looking for they’ll have

Astroturfing, trolling, testing whether the average commentor can gauge whether they’re arguing with a bot someone has been tweaking, who knows. It’s really not something I expend a lot of effort or thought on, I’ve just found a lot of accounts that I question the authenticity of based on odd activity, personally.

I have to disagree with many of the comments in this thread saying there are no / minimal bots here. I started tagging users pretty frequently instead of blocking over a year ago, and it’s pretty eye opening to see those accounts pop up in the wild posting completely opposing content or opinions from week to week. Sometimes even from thread to thread. Especially when it comes to politics or AI, for example. It doesn’t help that ban evading and making alts is dead simple.

Of course, this is just my opinion based on my own experiment and observations. I’ve been convinced many times I was arguing with some fash chud only to then see them completely agreeing with my position in another thread two days later. Normal people don’t flip flop that easily. I think LLM controlled bots are a totally different beast than what many of us are used to, and its much harder to see past the facade in the moment.

If your fedi client has a tagging feature, you might be surprised what you see when you start paying attention over time.

Edit: Just for clarity, this isn’t some extensive project I devote time and effort to, I don’t have solid answers for you regarding the rigor of my method or why people decide to make or use bots on a niche corner of the internet. I’ve personally noticed a lot of odd account activity in my few years here that has gotten more common with the ubiquity of LLMs. I’m not claiming bots outnumber real users, either. It’s completely fine to disagree! Enjoy the fediverse as it is as you see fit.

I experienced something similar with RD and Kodi last year. I suddenly started getting errors attempting to reach RD on my google TV. Using a VPN, everything worked fine, but without the VPN I’d always get errors. Using a VPN with a debrid service can also be iffy, and I got dinged by RD for the VPN switching IP automatically (despite the VPN I was using supposedly being on their whitelist).

What I determined after some digging and testing was that my ISP started blocking RD traffic in their locked down router settings (one of several ISPs that now do this), and my fix was to finally ditch their garbage router for one that I have control over.

Your situation isn’t identical, and I know little about that brand of streaming box, but it could possibly be an update or setting interfering or the manufacturer intentionally trying to prevent users from using their devices to access “pirate” services. Might be worth trying some searches with your model of thomson and your ISP to see if others are having similar problems with that hardware recently.

I don’t keep up with the bleeding edge of sources, but Weeb Central is decent in my experience. It was my backup for anything Comick didn’t have.

You may have to manually search some titles during the migration process, as the naming schemes between the sites aren’t identical and will miss some that they do actually have