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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[–] kttnpunk@lemmy.world 63 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yeah I mean, LW using discord instead of a FOSS option is not a good look...

[–] asunaspersonalasst@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.world -4 points 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?

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 21 points 1 year ago

Making announcements to somewhere you have to log in to see is the problem. You can't see Discord chats unless You're logged in.

[–] menemen@lemmy.world 17 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...

[–] SomeRandomWords@lemmy.blahaj.zone 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.

[–] BitOneZero@lemmy.world 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.

[–] Freesoftwareenjoyer@lemmy.world 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.