Is how easily mods have caved in once the admins threatened to remove them. I had thought we'd see quite a few cases where Reddit would have to step in an replace entire mod teams (effectively killing the community). But it seems like that hasn't happened at all - the closest we've got is mods being reordered....
If moderators were paid, and Reddit wasn't simply monetizing the community's content and goodwill, it wouldn't be too hard to see the company's coercive tactics as akin to strike-busting.
Been thinking about this for a while, but it probably wouldn't hut to write content advocating for non-technical folks as well (e.g. users of Rails apps). We can drive demand for Ruby - and indirectly grow the community - by promoting its value to people outside of our community.
But yes, I agree that more technical articles - across a range of topics and for different levels of experience - is a grand idea and will help to both get people into coding in Ruby and keeping us all interested.
Chuckled at the idea that we need to be generating fresh content for training LLMs. Nothing scares me more than future models only being trained on an internet awash with AI generated content. Model collapse anyone? :)
One thing that's surprised me about the Reddit shitshow
Is how easily mods have caved in once the admins threatened to remove them. I had thought we'd see quite a few cases where Reddit would have to step in an replace entire mod teams (effectively killing the community). But it seems like that hasn't happened at all - the closest we've got is mods being reordered....
A simple idea of how to grow the Ruby community (allaboutcoding.ghinda.com)
Creating additional technical material aids in expanding the Ruby community.