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

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Machefi@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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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 !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.

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[-] GBU_28@lemm.ee -1 points 1 year ago

Hence they created a discord to provide up to the moment updates on features/changes of lemmy.world.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

You really don't get this and I'm not going to spend any more time holding your hand through it.

[-] GBU_28@lemm.ee -1 points 1 year ago

Bro,

Discord created to provide up to the moment outage/stability updates.

Discord used in this instance to provide up to the moment defederation updates.

It's like, mostly the same words.

I acknowledged the use case is different and explained the reasoning they chose that platform.

Simple stuff.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

You still don't get it. You clearly don't want to. But your ego-stroking has been noted.

[-] GBU_28@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

Don't act like you're some dominant figure here, it's very toxic.

we disagree, and you are purposefully pretending I'm typing in wingdings or something.

Lemmy does not provide what they needed, and they justified their actions. If people don't like it, that's fine, but to suggest they mindlessly acted is purposefully missing the point because people aren't happy with them.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

Don’t act like you’re some dominant figure here, it’s very toxic.

What are you even talking about now? I didn't even bother reading the rest because that's such a bizarre thing to say that I couldn't keep going. What long-lost blocked-up crevice did you pull that out of?