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 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (17 children)

Also there is Matrix as a direct federated replacement for discord. No reason not to use it.

EDIT: After doing a bit more digging, it's not running on activitypub so not compatible wit the fediverse, but it does run on a federated model.

Although given that both are open protocols, it should in theory be possible to write an adaptor or an update to make them compatible.

EDIT 2: ~~nope lol~~

Edit 3: idk why I let myself be mislead and I don't remember what I looked up, but Matrix specifically says it is federated: https://spec.matrix.org/latest/

[–] ominouslemon@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Matrix is not part of the fediverse. I don't know where people got this idea, but I keep seeing it mentioned on Lemmy. It's just a decentralized messaging software

[–] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

After looking into it, it is federated but not activitypub, so it may not technically be part of the fediverse.

Edit: i did a bad job researching this, but this is true to the best of my knowledge.

[–] ColonelPanic@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It is federated though? It's literally the first sentence in their specification: https://spec.matrix.org/latest/

[–] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago

Okay that's a better source than whatever I was reading. I should get off the internet for now. I am too tired.

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