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 😉
- 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
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 “[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 “!update” and “!factoryreset” bot commands for every single issue over and over again, when it could just be a single forum post for each known issue.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
I believe there is a RSS option. Try https://mastodon.world/@lemmyworld.rss
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?
@timespace @jelloeater85 there’s plenty of good RSS readers, both desktop and web apps, and you can plug it into them.
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. :)
I didn’t realize the @-link redirects you to the external site from Lemmy. The correct URL for you guys over there should be /u/username@server.io, which means that /u/LemmyWorld@mastodon.world should be the correct path for Lemmy users. :)
You can theoretically follow them anywhere on the Fediverse.
What’s your aversion to Mastodon?
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.
I have no aversion to it. I just don’t want to have to visit yet another site. It would be nice if it were consolidated to lemmy.world so that it just pops up on my feed rather than having to visit Mastodon on a regular basis.
Not trying to argue with you but you can just install the PWA and subscribe to the account and you’ll get a browser notification when they post.
