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.

    • woelkchen@lemmy.worldM
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      1 year ago

      Fuck discord, communicate on platform you fucks

      I agree with your opinion on Discord but dude, don’t call volunteers who run a Lemmy instance that way. What’s wrong with you?

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        1 year ago

        Don’t just ban communities over a personal huff then?? And turning comments off? Come on.

        • woelkchen@lemmy.worldM
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          Don’t just ban communities over a personal huff then?? And turning comments off? Come on.

          I did not ban any community. Why are replying to me? I don’t understand.