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.

  • AsunasPersonalAsst@lemmy.worldEnglish
    253·
    1 year ago

    Got banned recently from their Discord server by [I’m assuming] me calling out their announcement/decision a clownery (which it actually is, because why make a announcement community when you’re not informing your userbase), ngl it’s mildly infuritating…

    What even is not a good look is I didn’t really receive a notice that I got banned there…

    Edit: phrasing

    • KrisND@lemmy.worldEnglish
      109·
      1 year ago

      I’m assuming the reason would’ve been trolling. Considering the bottom of this is all you did and didn’t put a statement like “I don’t agree with this channel, I think it’s uncalled for” etc etc. although even that I would put into !support@lemmy.world

      Just tagged a channel and said clownery with no activity in the discord really. Just wanted to add the additional context here and figured a SS would help too.

      • AsunasPersonalAsst@lemmy.worldEnglish
        62·
        1 year ago

        trolling

        no activity in the discord really

        Why would I be active in the DC when its supposedly purpose was announcements about the site and whenever this site is down? Why would you assume/expect people join in a DC server to interact?

        • KrisND@lemmy.worldEnglish
          35·
          1 year ago

          Why would I be active in the DC when its supposedly purpose was announcements about the site and whenever this site is down?

          Could you please clarify your source, the discord post as OP mentioned doesn’t read that. Lemmy.world announced their Discord server. And if you looked around the main purpose isn’t focused around announcements. It seems there was miscommunication and it wasn’t posted to lemmy, mistakes happen.

          “Why would you assume/expect people join in a DC server to interact?”

          That is sort of the point of Discord as a instant message community platform.

          I joined the discord because:

          • The internal lemmy direct messages sucks.
          • I already use discord anyways.
          • It’s a great way to not spam unrelated comments. etc

          Why did you join?

        • KrisND@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          What makes you think it’s “just to read announcement”. The initial post didn’t even mention announcements, nor was it the purpose of the discord. Yet that’s all you can seem to hold on to. It’s already been stated there was miscommunication on one announcement and that was that.

          Do you see the issue now or do you need help?

          This doesn’t even make sense because it appears you didn’t even read the original discord post or even have an understanding about it.

          A) It’s not a requirement to join discord, and never was made to be.

          B) Discord is of itself a community communication platform for IM.

          C) Millions of people actively use discord, it’s a popular platform and easier then others like Matrix. If it was something I didn’t already use, I would’ve never joined.

          Your message is filled with incorrect assumptions and it appears your unwilling to go find the answers that are even on the same page as these comments. It’s very surprising with the internet nowadays and people can’t even seem to find information that is right in front of them, yet they act like they already have the facts.