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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      1 year ago

      Huge +1 on this. Much more aligned to the philosophy of the Fediverse not to rely on a centralised service for announcements

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      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.

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    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!

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      Pretty wild to complain to a team that runs a lemmy and mastodon instance about not doing enough for FOSS.

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        I swear, some of the users here are so whiny and insufferable. I don’t envy the lemmy.world team at all.

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          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.

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            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.

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              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.

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        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.

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      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

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    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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      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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        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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      You can theoretically follow them anywhere on the Fediverse.

      What’s your aversion to Mastodon?

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          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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            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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        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.

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    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.

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        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.

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          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.

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            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?

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    Hace you expressed your difficulties with matrix moderation tools so that they can add enhancements to their roadmap?

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    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.

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    Awesome, sounds great! Don’t plan on joining Mastodon but options are good.