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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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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

There is a lot of FOSS stuff communicating over twitter... Even The Linux Foundation has a twitter account.

But lemmy.world should primarily communicate via lemmy imo...

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

That's where I'm at. Discord isn't the issue for me, it's them not using their own platform to communicate major announcements. At that point it's like you've given up on your own platform.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

But lemmy.world should primarily communicate via lemmy imo…

I find the same attitude holds for developers who like to hang out in real-time Matrix chat and don't seem to use Lemmy itself very much and things like code blocks ruining greater-than and less-than slip right into release without much concern.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Even The Linux Foundation has a twitter

Because Linus Torvalds doesn't care about the Free Software movement and user freedom. It's why his kernel is still on GPL2.