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 😉

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  • PeleSpirit@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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?

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      1 year ago

      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. :)

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        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.

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      1 year ago

      You can theoretically follow them anywhere on the Fediverse.

      What’s your aversion to Mastodon?

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          1 year ago

          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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            1 year ago

            I think the issue being taken is with how inconvenient making so many accounts can be. It’s the primary issue with the Fediverse. The expectation to make a new account whenever you want to/have to join a new instance is incredibly off-putting for many people.

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        1 year ago

        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.