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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] 160 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's BS to not announce, on lemmy.world something that affects lemmy.world.

Be open and transparent.

I don't like that you blocked the piracy communities but I recognise that you see a reason to do so.

I've already begun migrating my subs to another instance because that's the great thing about the fediverse - I can.

If you want to be the big Lemmy instance with a lot of traffic then you're going to have to protect yourself, I get it. But at least have the balls to announce your unpopular decisions.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

I happened to catch a message on Matrix from @[email protected] that he didn't like the way mentions work when you're offline and lots of messages build up, but I didn't realize that meant discord was replacing matrix, especially for community notices.

Add me to the list of folks who won't use discord.