cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/642061
official twitter announcement https://twitter.com/jellyfin/status/1670589982665322496
I get the desire for a centralized location but I was hoping Lemmy would be the spot. Forums just seen so fragmented, it’s nice to go to one place to see all the discussion instead of having several subpages which honestly have little action. https://lemmy.ml/c/jellyfin seemed like the best replacement for r/Jellyfin
I totally agree with you! Why didn’t they just hosted their own Lemmy instance???
Lemmy’s moderation tools are severely lacking and they seemed to want to get away from the rank by voting system and the churn created by older but relevant and active discussion being hidden on Reddit and Lemmy.
Add on user purge behavior and the headaches that causes. Can’t count the number of times I’ve been looking into an issue and came across a two year old reddit thread where the solution had been deleted. Much less likely to happen on a dedicated forum.
Hooo, time traveling to the 90s I see. Very vintage
Yeah it’s a pity they didn’t set up their own lemmy instance, that way every other lemmy instance could get the content…
They should just federate, they don’t need to use Lemmy to have it viewable from Lemmy/Kbin
just setup my lemmy acct. I do have a mastodon one tho. How find masto communities here, and vice versa?
Only one question remains: will it federate
I was just thinking that common forum software implementing ActivityPub would be a great way to link all of these disparate web forums that are still active and have useful content.
Yes, yes, yes, please yes! Let it use the ActivityPub protocol, it’ll be so epic pogchamp, fire lit fam 🙏🏻
nice switching back to good oll forums
I wish they would have chosen to use software to maintain threading in comments and I’m not sure that really Discourse gamifies it’s posts. After a quick look at the interface of myBB, I can say that I personally prefer Discourse. But I think non-accelrated-time-decaing forums are way better than Reddit for things like a project hub. I think what I liked about having many of my interests in on Reddit was the context switch for a topic often didn’t require a context switch in interface to benefit from the network effect of many people participating in the topic.
But at the end of the day, knowing where to get quality assistance and casual discussion about a topic or project is all I’m after. Reddit has been a place to find what I was after, oftentimes as a signpost to find where people are gathering. And now the threadiverse is providing that function much better and sooner than I expected despite its many shortcomings.
As someone who had to Google a bunch of docker issues and constantly got redirected to locked down subreddits, I’m all for developers hosting their own communities. At least then they have an incentive to keep the communities alive.
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Good for them. Using Discord for development work has never made sense to me.
Not really the direction I foresaw for this, going to be a big mess of trying to find helpful info n all.
This is heaps cool. For some reason I read it as Jellyfish are moving away from reddit.
Sweet. I’ll probably never use it :(
But can you make a lemmy.world feed as well. Having one place to go for everything is better than 100 places.
Eh I see no reason to have support discussions in Lemmy. Leave Lemmy for promotions, updates, and sharing content.
And why are they still on Twitter ?! Its not credible…
Probably to broadcast announcements.
Maybe… If they wanted to create an announcement effect, they could have simply stuck to their website or Mastodon etc… Posting on Twitter (!!!) the fact that they’re reacting so harshly to the Reddit case…for me it doesn’t make sense…
Dude, they want people to know, so they go to where people is. This is not field of dreams, if you build it no one will come unless you tell them where to find it. Try to relax a little, they do have a Mastodon and even have a Matrix instance bridged to Discord. They engage on Lemmy as well. Just, breathe deeply and put the toxicity away.
I’m relaxed, thank you for your advice, no toxicity here, just a reflection on using closed networks to promote free software… It doesn’t change the fact that I really love Jellyfin and will never switch back to Plex or anything else…
I’m so happy that they aren’t using Discourse.
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Discourse is centralized and proprietary, so it has all the same inherent fatal flaws as Reddit (and Twitter and Facebook)
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I think it’s cool they are using myBB, I’m a big fan for that style of community.
