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.
On one hand, I get it because Lemmy has been constantly bombarded with DDoS attacks to where, one moment you’re viewing something, next click and it’s back to that familiar screen of checking the browser, you and host. So it is annoying and I get why admins would want to announce and bring things elsewhere.
HOWEVER
What would’ve made it more fitting, is if they picked another federated platform, like Mastodon, to announce things.