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Lemmy.world announces blocking communities via Discord [update] (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This is in regard to Lemmy.world blocking piracy communities from other instances. This post is not about whether you agree with the decision. It's about how the admins informed their users.

A week ago Lemmy.world announced their Discord server. This wasn't very well received (about 25% downvotes, which is rather bad compared to other announcements). The comments on that post were turned off, presumably to avoid backlash.

Before that, announcements about the instance used to be posted to [email protected]. This time, the information was posted on the Discord server instead.

I don't agree with this. Having to use a proprietary platform to participate in an open-source one goes against the very purpose for me, especially when the new solution isn't really an improvement (as before the information about the platform was closer to it).

Edit: Corrected the announcements community name.

Update: Lemmy.world finally released an announcement and promised they would inform about similar actions and gather feedback in advance in future.

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[–] McNasty 40 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Sh.itjust.works uses matrix like any normal lemmy instance would.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sh.itjust.works uses matrix like any normal lemmy instance would.

Why should announcements happen in a real time chat anyway? Lemmy is actually best suited for announcements.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Indeed. But if there must be a chat, it should be matrix. But I've read it sucks for moderation.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Well, I doubt there must be a public chat in the first place, especially when it kind of serves as a competition to the *.World products. Some form of private chat between admins: sure. Public: IMO no.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Matrix is a piece of hot garbage on the UX front. Maybe when Matrix stops sucking so hard it can take matter out of galactic core black holes it can be taken seriously as a platform.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why would any normal instance use a chat program when their instance is literally a chat forum in the first place?

[–] McNasty 1 points 1 year ago

We use it for reporting site outages mostly.