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

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˜‰

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[–] [email protected] 297 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year 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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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year 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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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Incredibly insufferable and entitled lol

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

ActivityPub really can't do what discord does.

Matrix, however...

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year 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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

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

Wouldn't be surprised if it was a Cloudflare issue

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Is there any way to follow the updates without being logged into Mastodon? I don't know if it's mostly my user error that I can't follow. I do know that we can't really communicate towards them, but is following not an option as well?

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I know RSS has been around basically forever, but I’ve never bothered to learn how to use them.

What do I do with this rss link you provided? Is there n app or something to add this to that pushes alerts/notifications when there’s a new post or something?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

@timespace @jelloeater85 there’s plenty of good RSS readers, both desktop and web apps, and you can plug it into them.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

You should be able to follow it at @LemmyWorld, but I'm not sure how the interaction between Lemmy and Mastodon works for following users. They haven't posted anything yet of course, so for now it'll look empty.

If you want to follow the account without being logged in to the fediverse at all, a good option is the RSS feed. :)

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

Yup! That works too πŸ’ͺ😎πŸ’ͺ

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think Kbin gets Mastadon content.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm not saying it's not my fault but,

  • It's not showing up in a search and it's got all kinds of weird things happening when I put that in the address bar. I get past the "it's trying to trick you" phase and then it says it can't show me anything.

  • If I put it in search and try to follow, it says I must be logged into Mastodon to do that.

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

You can theoretically follow them anywhere on the Fediverse.

What's your aversion to Mastodon?

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

Probably just didn't want to have to make yet another account

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

When it comes to for-profit companies, I wholeheartedly agree, as there is very little chance 100% of my activity on that site won't be sold to data-brokers. When it comes to most Fediverse stuff, I am not so worried. Use an email alias and a pseudonym.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

A much better option than putting it behind discord wall.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What instance are you trying to sign up to? Have you tried making an account on desktop?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

You love to see it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Great news, thanks!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year 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 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thank you. Thats a good start.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year 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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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

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