Lemmy.World at Mastodon
mastodon.world
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 !lemmyworld@lemmy.world 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 π
- The LW Team
Thank you. I have no interest in joining random discords for this kind of info
Huge +1 on this. Much more aligned to the philosophy of the Fediverse not to rely on a centralised service for announcements
100% Discord is for discourse, not announcements/updates.
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[SOLVED]β, 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!updateβ and β!factoryresetβ bot commands for every single issue over and over again, when it could just be a single forum post for each known issue.
Yep, and when the inevitable enshittifcation happens I'll just sit on the sidelines eating popcorn.
I, for one, have been hoping for "replacement" instead of "supplement" (for Free Software reasons), but baby steps, I guess!
Pretty wild to complain to a team that runs a lemmy and mastodon instance about not doing enough for FOSS.
I swear, some of the users here are so whiny and insufferable. I don't envy the lemmy.world team at all.
Incredibly insufferable and entitled lol
I don't necessarily care much about the FOSS arguments and all that stuff that some of the other users complain about, but I kinda don't like the fact that I have to verify my account and link it just to go to a discord server for updates. I'm fine with just having the main community with updates, not sure why discord has to be thrown in to complicate things. If the main community is here to stay and I don't have to join a discord and go through the verification, hey that's fine by me. The verbiage is just odd how it makes it sound like the community will go away and you'll have to go to the discord. Hope that's never the case, though.
When lemmy.world goes down, how would mods use the website to communicate with us? They can't. So having a secondary mode of communication makes a ton of sense.
I suppose that's fair, good point. A locked-down discord is just an odd choice for that, in my opinion. Mastodon makes much more sense.
It's weird to rely on proprietary when you can use Matrix spaces.
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.
Wake me up when we have an (ActivityPub+Jitsi) Discord replacement.
ActivityPub really can't do what discord does.
Matrix, however...
Awesome! I don't have a Discord account (well, I had) so this will be very useful.
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
Plus the whole thing [Discord], seems to be down lately in the Los Angeles area, happened out of the blue.
Wouldn't be surprised if it was a Cloudflare issue
You actually could be right and is what I thought, since itβs consistently down for me.
;)
Followed!
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.
What instance are you trying to sign up to? Have you tried making an account on desktop?
This happens for all instances for me.. I can sign up and sign in up on desktop but I can't sign in to or sign up for any instances on the mastodon app.
I've had better luck with the third-party apps lately. They also implement the features that are available on desktop that the official mobile app is missing.
Yeah I think I'll have to do that. The official mastodon app has 0 functionality for me now that I have revisited it. I may reinstall but do you have any third party app suggestions for mastodon?
Change the instance bro
Unfortunately the same error happens for all instances that I have tried, even the ones specific to where I live.
That shouldn't be happening. No one else reported it so I guess its your network. Check spam box etc.but yea I signed up without any issues.
A much better option than putting it behind discord wall.
You love to see it.
Great news, thanks!
Awesome, sounds great! Don't plan on joining Mastodon but options are good.
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.
If you set your language on account, it should bring back stuff set as your language and undefined.
Thank you. Thats a good start.
Hace you expressed your difficulties with matrix moderation tools so that they can add enhancements to their roadmap?
π
Is it wrong to question that? I would love to have a good FOSS discord alternative.
Then tell them to look at the tools available for discord
@lwadmin ππ» following you @ here now
Hey, thanks.