The title says it all: How can we grow the Rust community here on Lemmy? Many users fled Reddit or are here for different reasons. But compared to it’s commercial big brother, the Rust community here, feels more or less dead. I would like to discuss ideas, on how we can changes that and make Lemmy the default for Rust related discussions, instead of Reddit.

    • v9CYKjLeia10dZpz88iU@programming.dev
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      7 months ago

      I don’t think there’s actually a problem in the fediverse. There’s been lots of different bots that did all types strange things on reddit. There are some issues with user content use without consent, but then again, people literally make YouTube videos of the top reddit posts. This is also a highly educational resource, not done for profit, and makes the world better.

      In other words, I might not care if programming.dev doesn’t want it, and move somewhere else in the fediverse.

      edit: Remember, the issue wasn’t making reddit clients, but making reddit clients without paying reddit for API usage.

      • ericjmorey@programming.dev
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        7 months ago

        There’s an entire instance that implimented your proposal that was quickly blocked by the largest instances. They were considered spam. It resulted in the opposite of growing community engagement.

        • v9CYKjLeia10dZpz88iU@programming.dev
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          7 months ago

          I don’t think you could name a single example of a relay. There were mirrors, like zerobytes.monster which took every post and mirrored them without relaying anything back to reddit.

          edit: Relays also show up in other places too. I’ve seen people relay Discord servers with Matrix accounts. It might make sense to relay GitHub discussion forums or similar content elsewhere in the fediverse.

          • ericjmorey@programming.dev
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            7 months ago

            Getting hung up on the difference between a mirror and a relay is moot. I don’t see how people would be more accepting of that. In fact it seems like more people would object to having their posts mirrored to reddit considering the reason many are here is to stop participating on Reddit.

            And it doesn’t eliminate the initial problem which is that the posts will be considered spam by the largest instances.

            So you could not care and do it yourself, but I suspect that it will result in the same reduction in community engagement as the prior attempt.