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A few things:
Personally, I don't have any preference. I will simply subscribe to the community which is the most active on whichever instance.
The downside to individual servers, and micro-communities, is the cost and maintenance of lemmy instance. Its more scalable, reliable and cheaper to have a bunch of relatively low-churn communities exist on one bigger instance.
The upside is that the rust community gets to own its own data. If programming.dev decides to shut down tomorrow, and posts and comments made there are gone. Lemmy doesn't mirror or cache... all that data lives solely on the server ran by somebody.
I'd vote lemmyrs at least for now until a governance and stability model is figured out to ensure these conversations don't go into /dev/null like /r/rust (sort of) did.
If say the Linux Foundation or a similarly large open source foundation (Apache, FSF, OSI, etc) decided to host a larger "open source" server, I'd consider moving there to improve discoverability and lessen the burden on the rust community itself
Agreed, there are advantages of having an own community. Especially until the people running e.g. programming.dev have a proven track record of being reliable.
Hi, creator of programming.dev here. What could we do to prove reliability to you? Would open graphs and metrics of the current state of the service help? Would current server costs and how much has been covered by donations help? Would knowing the names of everyone with access to the server, on the admin team, or access to the domain name help?
It seems to me like a user stood up an instance of lemmy and because it has
rs
as part of the name you might be treating it like the Rust community's, but to me, it's exactly the same as programming.dev, except it has a lot less chance of staying running.