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 [email protected]. 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.
Matrix is a federated alternative to Discord that is both open source and highly concerned with user privacy. It’s also very popular here on Lemmy, and a lot of communities here use it. 
I have not heard of matrix till now. How does one join?
God I feel like an old person always asking the younguns how to fediverse…
get started here by choosing a matrix client: https://matrix.org/ecosystem/clients/
Thank you!
Same idea as lemmy, you pick a server and join chatrooms on any federated server
Ruud decided matrix was too
hardunreliable to use for this purpose and bailed a few weeks agoETA: wrong adjective
It’s not hard to use but definitely doesn’t work well, in my experience.
it’s… different and takes some getting used to. it also depends on which client you choose to use.
I prefer not to “get used to” a super slow service.
I haven’t experienced it being slow. that might depend on the client you’re using. fortunately, there are a few to choose from.
Conduit is a great Matrix home server. So quick and easy to get up and running with very little fiddling around. It’s a no-brainer to deploy.
too hard?? lmao