This is completely counter productive to growing Lemmy. I absolutely despise discord. Look at the network traffic it generates and tell me wtf they are doing. They won’t tell you. Their business model will leave you completely dumbfounded as to how they exist. Everything shared on the platform is lost in a black hole unavailable to the outside world and everything shared is a privacy nightmare. Posting this, pinning it here, and locking it is one of the biggest trolls possible. It pisses me off every time I log in. “Everyone else does it” is the excuse of idiots. Discord makes absolutely no sense to anyone that actually cares to look into it, read the user agreement, and ask sane questions about what they are doing.
Yup! Its not a forced thing. Where you get “special” news or so. Its just a off site platform where LW can tell whats wrong if the site goes offline. For the casual user, its the easiest to join.
Hello,
Thank you for your work!
For that specific use case, would it be possible to set-up a Mastodon account posting heads-up about incidents?
There are already monitoring sites that provide that info:
https://lemmy-world.statuspage.io/
https://lemmy-status.org/endpoints/_lemmy-world
I am well aware of those, but then what type of information is on Discord? Why cannot that just be added in comments to the incidents on the status pages?
I don’t know what’s on Discord; I haven’t joined the lemmy.world server. All the important announcements are on lemmy.world. if it’s down, then it’s down, come back later.