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.

  • zer0@thelemmy.clubEnglish
    384·
    1 year ago

    This gives out the impression they don’t care about lemmy being open source and decentralized but rather they are at it for a piece of the cake

    • hamid@lemmy.worldEnglish
      83·
      1 year ago

      By running a server on donations and barely breaking even? I’m not sure I’m following the logic here, this isn’t a corporate controlled website beholden to board members and advertisers

        • hamid@lemmy.worldEnglish
          51·
          1 year ago

          So the guy that runs lemmy world for free without ads as a hobby with a group of volunteers are all narcissists because… they use discord? This sounds like a pretty incredible leap

          • zer0@thelemmy.clubEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            Reddit mods also work for free as volunteers. Don’t underestimate internet popularity and power over communities, not so many days ago there were stories about mastodon instances admins getting invited for talks at meta. Lemmy is an open source and decentralized alternative to reddit, using discord for announcements misses the whole point

            • hamid@lemmy.worldEnglish
              11·
              1 year ago

              And what is the point of that? Providing you with free servers and labor for their hobby? I think you all really need to get a grip, its a website not a government.