Lemmy.World Announcements @lemmy.world lwadmin @lemmy.world 9 mo. ago

Lemmy.World at Mastodon

mastodon.world Lemmy.World (@LemmyWorld@mastodon.world)

23 Posts, 8 Following, 891 Followers · The official #lemmyworld account for announcements and so forth. Good friends with @mwadmin RSS Feed https://mastodon.world/@LemmyWorld.rss Status websites https://dash.lemmy.world https://status.lemmy.world Contact us at info@lemmy.world

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

Technologie - 🤖 @jlai.lu Camus @jlai.lu 9 mo. ago

Lemmy.World at Mastodon

mastodon.world /@LemmyWorld

65 comments

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
  
  A closed source centralised service, at that, too.
  
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- 100% Discord is for discourse, not announcements/updates.
- 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.
  
  Yep, and when the inevitable enshittifcation happens I'll just sit on the sidelines eating popcorn.
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'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.
  
  It's weird to rely on proprietary when you can use Matrix spaces.
- Wake me up when we have an (ActivityPub+Jitsi) Discord replacement.
  
  ActivityPub really can't do what discord does.
  
  Matrix, however...
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.
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- 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?
- 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. :)
  
  Yup! That works too 💪😎💪
  
  How to do that pls?
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  It does!
- LemmyWorld@mastodon.world
  
  This might be the user?
  
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- You can theoretically follow them anywhere on the Fediverse.
  
  What's your aversion to Mastodon?
  
  Probably just didn't want to have to make yet another account
  
  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.
- Yes, just add https://mastodon.world/@LemmyWorld.rss in a rss reader of your choice.
  Works with any mastodon account. I.e you only need to add .rss to any url.
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A much better option than putting it behind discord wall.
Followed!
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.
- What instance are you trying to sign up to? Have you tried making an account on desktop?
  
  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.
- Change the instance bro
  
  Unfortunately the same error happens for all instances that I have tried, even the ones specific to where I live.
You love to see it.
Great news, thanks!
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.
- If you set your language on account, it should bring back stuff set as your language and undefined.
  
  Thank you. Thats a good start.
Hace you expressed your difficulties with matrix moderation tools so that they can add enhancements to their roadmap?
- 🙄
  
  Is it wrong to question that? I would love to have a good FOSS discord alternative.
Awesome, sounds great! Don't plan on joining Mastodon but options are good.
@lwadmin 👍🏻 following you @ here now
Absolutely great! More load for your orage pi zero's!
- Is there info on how the instance is hosted?
Hey, thanks.

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