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.

    • GBU_28@lemm.eeEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      One of the original intentions of posting somewhere else was about outages.

      Something like “we are down so much come read about it live over at …”

        • GBU_28@lemm.eeEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          “why did lemmy.world mods start posting things to a discord group?” Is the implied point of the thread we are in.

          Acknowledged that THIS post by them was regarding defederating the piracy group.

          • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
            7·
            1 year ago

            No, that is not the implied point. This is specifically about announcing blocking communities and instances. No one expects lemmy.world to announce it’s down on itself.

            • GBU_28@lemm.eeEnglish
              3·
              1 year ago

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

                • GBU_28@lemm.eeEnglish
                  4·
                  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.