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.

  • HughJanusEnglish
    32·
    11 months ago

    It’s going to become Voat or whatever the latest far-right website is these days.

    Not at all. I mean maybe if you only look at the local feed. But this is the Fediverse, I can still see every other instance.

    I don’t need anyone choosing for me what I should and should not see. I can (and do) do that myself, thank you.

    • joe@lemmy.world
      101·
      11 months ago

      I don’t need anyone choosing for me what I should and should not see. I can (and do) do that myself, thank you.

      I see this a lot, and first off, it’s not true at the instance level, for lemmy-- unless there’s a new option I didn’t see. Second, having to block someone that suggests you should die for your skin color, after reading the comment, is not without harm. There is value in preventing the speech from being seen at all, versus blocking people after the fact.

      It’s obviously a generalization, but generally the people who say “just block them” are also people that haven’t lived with systemic bigotry directed at them for their entire lives.

      And for the record, I don’t think piracy falls into this category of speech.

      • HughJanusEnglish
        22·
        11 months ago

        it’s not true at the instance level, for lemmy-- unless there’s a new option I didn’t see

        I promise it is true. I’ve been doing it for months.

        Second, having to block someone that suggests you should die for your skin color, after reading the comment, is not without harm.

        Speak for yourself. Doesn’t harm me.

        • joe@lemmy.worldEnglish
          51·
          11 months ago

          I promise it is true. I’ve been doing it for months.

          You haven’t been blocking instances with Lemmy because that option doesn’t yet exist.

          Speak for yourself. Doesn’t harm me.

          What do you mean? Are you saying that because you aren’t affected that no one can be?

          • HughJanusEnglish
            12·
            11 months ago

            You haven’t been blocking instances with Lemmy because that option doesn’t yet exist.

            Again, yes, I have.

            What do you mean? Are you saying that because you aren’t affected that no one can be?

            …no. I said the opposite of that.

        • Blaze@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          1·
          11 months ago

          I promise it is true. I’ve been doing it for months.

          How do you block a whole instance in Lemmy?