Hey folks!
I think I usually write too much, so I will try to keep it short and sweet this time.
Discord
I have created an official Discord server for lemm.ee! This is mostly intended as a back-up channel to share announcements with users - for example, if there is ever an incident and lemm.ee is offline, I can send updates about the situation in Discord. But feel free to join if you just want to chat with other lemm.ee users as well!
You can join the Discord at this link: https://discord.gg/XM9nZwUn9K
New admins
Two new admins have been added to the team! @Matt_Glan@lemm.ee and @Aris@lemm.ee have stepped up and volunteered to help me take care of the report queue. I think having good admins is super important to ensure a pleasant experience for all users, so I'm super happy that we have users who were willing to share this responsibility with me.
My hope is that adding a few more admins has helped ensure that I am less of a single point of failure for lemm.ee now. I am still considering maybe adding one or two more admins in the near future, but in terms of actual workload, I think the current team is already a pretty good size.
Anyway, that's all I have for you for now - please join the Discord if that's something you're interested in, and please welcome our new admins!
Edit: @prefix@lemm.ee has been added as an admin as well!
For now, I believe this is a good size for the team, we won't be adding any more admins in the near future. A big thanks to all who responded to the call for admins!
Not to be That Guy, but Discord is another corporate proprietary walled garden just like Twitter and Reddit and given recent experiences I think it should be avoided by the Fediverse community. See also this blog post (I am not affiliated with its author, I just think it expresses the point well).
There are several alternatives. If you want real-time chat, Matrix or IRC would work. If you just want to make announcements, an RSS feed or mailing list would do the trick.
Just my two cents. Thanks for your work in setting up and maintaining this instance!
Edit: Bonus see also
Hey! To be clear, !meta@lemm.ee will remain the main communication channel going forward. I am already on Matrix as well, so for sure during any Lemmy incidents I will be active in the Lemmy channels on Matrix - if you're already on Matrix, you're covered.
This Discord is just something supplementary, specifically aimed at people who are not using Matrix. There won't be any announcements that are only made on Discord or anything like that!
Which Matrix channels? I made an account on matrix.org before but didn't see any channels that interested me.
Is there a benefit of Matrix vs Revolt? I've not looked into either of them really. Revolt was the one everyone seemed to be pushing recently. This is the first I've heard of Matrix.
Matrix is more established and also decentralized. It can do End-To-End-Encryption and is backed by more people.
