admin

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Most likely programming in Rust otherwise figuring this thing out.

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admin,

Oh wow, this seems like a fantastic addition. One of these days I really gotta switch from my decade old tmux workflow to zellij!

admin,

Sigh, I tried it one more time. Same problem. Downtime this time was probably < 5 mins though so hopefully not noticeable. I am wondering whether the database is in some bad shape (no idea why/how). I guess we wait and retry with 0.18.1.

admin,

I think it’s likely to spike again when the api goes dark

That's a fair point. I think I might bump up the specs of this instance over the weekend (will make an announcement prior).

I haven’t been back there, is any consensus forming regarding whether people will use /r/rust, !rust, or !rust going forward?

I am still of the opinion that both can (and probably should) co-exist. This particular instance will always be Rust focused, federated and have rust dedicated micro-communities. Whether it continues to grow only time will tell I suppose.

Will lemmyrs defederate from controversial instances?

The apparently-close connection between the primary lemmy devs and the lemmygrad.rs instance (as well as other potentially problematic behavior/associations) has been a major point of discussion in recent r/rust posts about trying to move the community somewhere off of reddit. One common recommendation in these threads is that...

admin,

Hey, thanks for bringing this up. I completely agree that this is indeed something that we should discuss as a community. I haven't had the chance to make a thread about this yet, so we'll use this one :)

I have been keeping an eye on the de-federation of some instances but afaict the primary reason they did that was because of the open signup nature of those instances resulting in a flood of potential bot/troll accounts which the mods couldn't keep up with (understandably so). LemmyRS is (and probably will be in the foreseeable future) an application only instance. We just don't currently have the infrastructure or the manpower to deal with a completely open instance.

Any user who signs up using this instance presumably understands the target topic is Rust (and we have communities on this instance to cater to those users, so it's already pretty self-isolated in that sense). If someone wants to subscribe to communities on other federated instances they're completely open to do so. While things settle I think this approach should serve us well (please feel free to disagree and provide any counter arguments).

But again this isn't my unilateral decision, I would simply do what the users of this instance want as a group.

admin,

Makes sense, done.

admin,

Agreed on the "bit early" part, disagree on the "split". As for traffic, maybe it comes, maybe it doesn't; can't really make a call on that yet. I feel it's better to do this now instead of when there's 1000+ members here (if ever).

I wouldn't necessarily label it as a "split" instead more like an organizational restructuring to keep things slightly more focused and on-topic. One can choose to "subscribe" to Rust Lang + Rust: Support but not to the other ones if they aren't interested for example.

admin,

I think I struggled at least a couple months before I even got the hang of Rust. Read "the book" several times, didn't help. Watched several videos, didn't help. What eventually clicked for me personally was learn rust with entirely too many linked lists, I think I have read that 20+ times (still visit it sometimes).

6 months into it, I started getting better at organizing code and thinking more in terms of a data-driven approach (structs and impls) vs abstraction based (class and methods).

Bottom line is, everyone has a different approach to learning with wildly different times it takes to absorb knowledge. As for whether it's worth, well, it's still a relatively young language (compared to C, python, erlang, java) so you're already early. Another decade and perhaps Rust becomes as universal as C is.

admin,

If old.reddit.com gets taken down, I'm out for good.

As good as the fediverse is, there has to be a tremendous amount of work to make it easier for non-tech folks to participate. I am excited though, being here certainly feels like the good old simpler web.

admin,

I mostly agree with you and the fact is yes there are no guarantees. But that's kind of the point, I don't believe that lemmy.ml would be around forever either, will lemmyrs be? I don't know! I see it as an opportunity to further decentralize and diversify the existing ecosystem. FWIW, the maintainers themselves encourage hosting other instances :)

admin,

Okay, so it is definitely a little wonky but I was able to search for lemmyrs.org/c/rustlang from another instance.

I first had to paste the full url https://lemmyrs.org/c/rustlang in the search bar then click search a few times for it to actually show up.

I understand it's very annoying that it is this way but I'm hopeful that the experience will smooth out over time.

admin,

Greetings! The legend himself!

I made the suggested communities over at lemmyrs.org. The next few weeks are going to be very interesting!

admin,

Yeah, I know folks are struggling to find the communities on other instances. I posted https://lemmyrs.org/comment/3900 if it helps. Basically you start your search with the full URL, wait a second and then switch back to text search and it pops up magically.

The UX certainly needs some polish, but we'll get there :)

admin,

I'm hopeful that lemmy reaches critical mass because of Reddit's absurd policies.

Reddit has permanently suspended my account for supporting Lemmy.

I have been supporting Lemmy recently a lot and made posts about Lemmy that got big reach. Today, sadly the reddit account through which, I moderated a lot of subs and spent time on, comes to an end. The reason was because I spammed according to reddit, but the reality is that they have censored me because I was hurting Reddit....

admin,

I believe I got shadow-banned as well for trying to promote the instance I host, oh well 🤷

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