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 !lemmyworld@lemmy.world. 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.

  • Malcriada Lala@lemmy.worldEnglish
    52·
    1 year ago

    This makes no sense to me. Did they provide a reason for choosing Discord of all things? What was wrong with making announcements on Lemmy? Why wouldn’t they choose to make announcements in another federated format in addition and not instead of lemmy? Like, I’m not super tech savvy but I’m sure they could set up an RSS-like feed to send out alerts? IDK

    • SgtAStrawberry@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      1 year ago

      With my very limited understanding of it, I believe Discord was something mostly for “as we are down so much, you can get updates here if we are down”.

        • GBU_28@lemm.eeEnglish
          4·
          1 year ago

          I guess cause it is entirely separate from Lemmy, so can act as a different option.

          Also it’s real time posting ( like a chat, not a post) and many people already have it.

          As a secondary, it’s not a bad choice.

          What would you recommend?

          Another Lemmy instance would also get ddosed

      • Deiv@lemmy.caEnglish
        71·
        1 year ago

        At this point they should just make a new instance for their announcements lol

        • SgtAStrawberry@lemmy.worldEnglish
          41·
          1 year ago

          Maybe they wanted something off Lemmy so that the attackers can’t target both the main and the backup, with the same system.

          • ALostInquirer@lemm.eeEnglish
            7·
            1 year ago

            Isn’t this where Mastodon.world kind of comes into play? Off Lemmy but still a federated service, can even pop whatever LemmyWorld status account there in to one’s RSS readers or whatever.