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Lemmy.World at Mastodon (mastodon.world)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by lwadmin to c/lemmyworld
 

Hey everyone!

So we've been trying our best to listen to members of the community on how we provide updates and information to you fine folks! To that end, we would like to welcome a new secondary, fedi-friendly avenue, Mastodon.

https://mastodon.world/@LemmyWorld

We will be posting updates here in ADDITION to our normal [email protected] community. As both a supplement to our Discord server and a place for the community to directly interact with us via micro-blogging.

We feel this opens up a few neat doors for sure to keep communication open and transparent.

See you there πŸ˜‰

  • The LW Team
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[–] ZephyrXero 298 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Thank you. I have no interest in joining random discords for this kind of info

[–] chic_luke 57 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Huge +1 on this. Much more aligned to the philosophy of the Fediverse not to rely on a centralised service for announcements

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[–] KazuyaDarklight 41 points 10 months ago

100% Discord is for discourse, not announcements/updates.

[–] PM_Your_Nudes_Please 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

God yes. I hate that so many services are moving towards Discord instead of things like message boards. Fuck Discord for troubleshooting/help desk stuff. Let me search google, find the related forum post marked β€œ[SOLVED]”, and have my answer without needing any human interaction whatsoever. On Discord, you end up with Help Desk 1 workers spamming the same dozen β€œ!update” and β€œ!factoryreset” bot commands for every single issue over and over again, when it could just be a single forum post for each known issue.

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[–] grue 40 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

a supplement to our Discord server

I, for one, have been hoping for "replacement" instead of "supplement" (for Free Software reasons), but baby steps, I guess!

[–] [email protected] 55 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Pretty wild to complain to a team that runs a lemmy and mastodon instance about not doing enough for FOSS.

[–] dingus 26 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

I swear, some of the users here are so whiny and insufferable. I don't envy the lemmy.world team at all.

[–] Ado 2 points 10 months ago

Incredibly insufferable and entitled lol

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[–] tabular 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I've heard a reason for choosing Discord is the good moderation tools. I don't know enough to comment on that so I just hope that free software alternatives improves their moderation tools.

When you value software freedom for yourself and others then it's actually pretty dull and obvious to express concern. It's like a coworker just started smoking.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

It's weird to rely on proprietary when you can use Matrix spaces.

[–] 3laws 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Wake me up when we have an (ActivityPub+Jitsi) Discord replacement.

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[–] orangeboats 35 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Awesome! I don't have a Discord account (well, I had) so this will be very useful.

[–] cosmicboi 23 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Discord is a weirdly polarizing social network, in my experience. People tend to either be on it constantly (like me and my friends), or they create an account and then almost never use it

[–] TheGoldenGod 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Plus the whole thing [Discord], seems to be down lately in the Los Angeles area, happened out of the blue.

[–] cosmicboi 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Wouldn't be surprised if it was a Cloudflare issue

[–] TheGoldenGod 5 points 10 months ago

You actually could be right and is what I thought, since it’s consistently down for me.

[–] vsp 10 points 10 months ago
[–] zecg 10 points 10 months ago

A much better option than putting it behind discord wall.

[–] dantheinfant 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I have tried making an account on mastodon many times but I get a constant error saying wrong time zone error even though there's no option for me to enter a time zone. Any one know if that's an operating system or phone issue? I'm using a pixel 5.

[–] yoppa 10 points 10 months ago (2 children)
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[–] Jackthelad 7 points 10 months ago

You love to see it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Great news, thanks!

[–] KrisND 4 points 10 months ago

Awesome, sounds great! Don't plan on joining Mastodon but options are good.

[–] warmaster 4 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Hace you expressed your difficulties with matrix moderation tools so that they can add enhancements to their roadmap?

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[–] insheets 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

An off subject question for the mods. Could we have subjects that can be subscribed to placed into broad categories? I would like to view "all" while never seeing either foreign language or sports. It would be much easier to block "sports" or "not english" for example.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If you set your language on account, it should bring back stuff set as your language and undefined.

[–] insheets 2 points 10 months ago

Thank you. Thats a good start.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

@lwadmin πŸ‘πŸ» following you @ here now

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