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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[+] infyrin@lemmy.world 57 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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[–] zer0@thelemmy.club 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

lemmy.world it's not "lemmy"

[–] true_blue@lemmy.comfysnug.space 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The fact that this isn't the first time I've seen someone make that false equivalence demonstrates pretty well the problem that comes when a small number of instances have the majority of Lemmy's total users. I chose a small instance myself, partially to do my part in avoiding this issue, but the consolidation will likely continue to be a big problem until a good solution can be thought up and implemented.

[–] true_blue@lemmy.comfysnug.space -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

[–] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 5 points 1 year ago

Where you need to have an account just to see the announcement, none the less.