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Lemmy.world announces blocking communities via Discord [update] (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

With Matrix (at least as far as I understand), if you aren't logged in when the message is posted you can't actually decrypt it. I think Matrix would actually be worse than Discord for an announcement like this.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is wrong. I’m on matrix both on my computer and phone. If I’m not logged in, and conversations are made during that time I can log in and it decrypts all the messages letting you pick up where you left off.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not sure what I did wrong then but that was my experience

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It might have something to do with the channel admin, I’m not sure as I don’t run my own matrix channel, I only know that’s how it works for me. Also the only encrypted channel that I see on my matrix account is the dm’s. The regular channels I’m on are not encrypted and it states as much in the text bar where you type

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's possible that the Matrix server you were on was/is having issues then. I've been running my own instance for over two years now and have not experienced this. I can even login to a new device, verify my session, and then view the history for every channel I've ever been in (encrypted or not).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Just recently started using it. This is the way it has worked since I started. And that just in the last 2 months

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is not true at all. I'm using Element, a matrix client and I'm part of lots of communities. I check it a few times per week and of course i can see all messages.

Install Element and join a server and you will see. It's actually pretty nice.