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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[–] 1984@lemmy.today 92 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Discord is pretty much against everything the open web is about. Closed source and proprietary protocols... Probably tons of data mining of users as well.

[–] mog77a@lemm.ee 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Probably? Nah, they legit advertise what their users do. Seemingly increasingly so.

Discord has "drops" (in beta for over a year now to be fair as it wasn't super popular), aka the status snippet that shows when and what app you're using gets shared with developers. Basically, what you do on your system gets logged. You can opt out of that, of course, but still they do collect it. Pretty sure they also stored calls and screen recordings at some point (for convenience reasons of course), but there are now too many users for that. At least, I think they no longer do that. But every single thing you type into discord is logged and can be traced back to you with perfect accuracy.

[–] Chriszz@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Awaiting the fall of discord once it goes full anti consumer

[–] cow@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can’t believe some subreddits migrated to discord in protest over third party apps when discord will ban you if you try to use 3rd party apps.

[–] Tag365@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait what? Why does it ban you if you use third party applications to use it?

[–] cow@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/115002192352-Automated-user-accounts-self-bots-

[–] McNasty@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Including the parts you type out and don't post.

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