Matsuoka was such a random BS rival for the author to throw into the story. At least his involvement didn’t last long, and maybe with this extra resolution he won’t be a thorn anymore.
Another issue is I think the moderator is somewhat dormant and there’s no current process in lemmy to replace or add new ones without their approval. Bit of a lawless land at the moment.
Formula1 on lemmy.ml has active moderators and sidebar and pinned posts, but very slightly less engagement though quite close.
I think without striving to match reddit's formatting exactly, at the moment just putting one up and pinning it would be a good start prior to figuring out an automated solution. Could be tedious but having a reminder to refresh it each week or so until better tools come out is a solution.
As the other META discussion thread today and previous ones have brought up, I think there's a concern that users may just feel this community is bogged by update threads only, so having a manually pinned thread as a placeholder for now would give a better impression for new users, a sign that this place is for any posts about manga, just that the low-effort updates tend to be the most common due to being easy even for ex-lurkers like me.
Floopity @ Flippanteer @lemmy.world Posts 25Comments 26Joined 2 yr. ago 
Matsuoka was such a random BS rival for the author to throw into the story. At least his involvement didn’t last long, and maybe with this extra resolution he won’t be a thorn anymore.