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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[–] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That sounds broken to the point of absurdity. Where did you hear that?

[–] sure@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

I think OP is mixing up IRC and Matrix. IRC indeed does require you to be online to receive messages (but there are ways around that), but matrix loads your messages offline just fine.

Checked it now and I have 3k unread messages on the lemmy support chart.

[–] Madbrad200@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's also how IRC works and most chat platforms are heavily inspired by IRC, unless you use a program (bouncer) that kept you online 24/7. I assume there must be something similar for Matrix

One of many reasons people left IRC for Discord.

[–] kobra@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I didn't hear it, I experienced it. /shrug