Hey RealM, as @wjs018@lemmy.ml has already suggested, this is a kbin quirk. It's documented on the kbin Codeberg bug tracker as #350. The kbin maintainers have not yet commented on whether this is intended behavior or a bug, but it does not appear as if anything will be done about the problem in the near future.

The only course of action that I could possibly take to work around the issue is to remove the bot flag from @shinobu@ani.social. Unfortunately, doing this would violate the right of Lemmy users to opt out of seeing bot activity -- not to mention also violate the ToS of numerous instances (including ani.social)

If I remember correctly, kbin doesn't allow bot accounts to federate by default. I don't know if there are manual exceptions that can be made or not.

As a fellow Kbin user, I ended up creating a lemmy account just for this and making it my anime account instead. It's a little annoying to have multiple accounts, but also its good redundancy in case something happens to one of them.

I'll refrain from talking specifics until the poll closes since the ideal solution is going to vary a fair amount depending upon the exact curation methodology, but I basically agree with what you're saying here.

There will definitely be some feature for this, though -- depending on the goal order established in the survey -- it is possible that the feature won't be ready at day one. For what it's worth, I will be sharing a proposed roadmap with the community long before anything gets written in stone. Goal #1 is ensuring that the entire pipeline is as fully aligned as possible with what the community finds valuable.