The official Rust project account will no longer be active on Twitter
Thank me later alligator.
this post was submitted on 05 Apr 2025
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Twitter hasn’t existed for a while. Rust didn’t leave twitter, they left a corpse
It’s to clear possible confusion with X11.
Xitter (pronounced shitter) works well enough
I used (for a short time) to maintain a usage of Twitter instead of X, to participate on pissing of Musk along with the crowd, but to me it makes no sense anymore, X is indeed not what Twitter was years ago. It's not a name rebranding anymore, we all here know that. And IMO, Rust would not have left Twitter, like I wouldn't have. We left X, with everything that new name carries with.
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Surprised it didn't rewrite it's own X with blackjack and concurrency
wait until you hear about this project called lemmy
Lemmy was written in Rust?
(Edit: damn, over 75% of the codebase is rust. Nice)
I'm actually surprised there aren't already 20 alternatives to Twitter written in Rust
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Nitter link: https://nitter.net/rustlang/status/1908479478159818903
It's funny how many people are against this. They sure do like to lick elon's boots.
Rust is... woke?!?
🌍🧑🚀 🔫🧑🚀 Always has been
I love this gif, where'd you get it from?
I searched "garten of banban sad gif" on tenor
It's funny how many people care one way or another. It's a programming language, and if I want updates, I'll check their changelog. They have incredibly consistent releases, so why would I need a notification on SM when they release again on that schedule?
I don't get it. Post or don't, I don't care, just write good code.
Those people wrote a "hello world" and gave up after having to do something using an ampsand (&)
Holy crap. I don't go on Twitsack any more but I guess I shouldn't be surprised the remaining people are clowns.
Honestly I'm laughing at those comments. Most of them are outright pathetic, not just sad or annoyed or smug but childish and pathetic.
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I don't understand why any business is active on any social media, especially ones run by billionaires.
Post your shit to a website.
Have it auto-mirror to a social media platform.
Funnel questions back to your own website.
Done.
I have been recently reminiscing with some friends about the internet back when instead of massive websites that held everything, there were small forums with specialized focus. You could get to know the people in the forums over time. It was so much better than the shit that exists today.
I would love to join forums made by these projects. I don’t care if I have to have a bunch of accounts. Individual forums and RSS feeds are awesome. Since moving to RSS I have drastically reduced my mindless scrolling.
Ah yes phpBB those were the days. Wait, no they weren't. They sucked. Old forum software was one of the worst computing experiences I remember.
Want to download a custom Android ROM? Hope you like reading through this 120 page thread one page at a time. Oh and each message will be surrounded by a metric mile of profile pictures and signature.
RSS was pretty great though, I'll give you that.
rss is still everywhere.
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Marketers are lazy.
Consumers are lazy and are trained that anything not on an app is dangerous and scary.
As a privacy advocate, I have the opposite reaction: almost every app is dangerous and scary. If it doesn't have a nice mobile web app, I'll try to avoid it on my phone.
Have it auto-mirror to a social media platform.
That's what it is most of the time. The thing is that native content just does a lot better than linked content. Think about how often someone will see a link and not click it. If they don't have to click and you meet them on the website they're already on, your content is consumed a lot more. I'm not just talking about so-called "content creators", but also things like what the Rust account would post.
It's pretty easy to automate posting content instead of just a link.
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Good. No one with any sense still uses that site.
Oh nyoooo, Rust is woke
- Lunduke (probably)
He crapped on Debian for this reason too. & for some reason people think he's a journalist.
Also will Pleroma & Akkoma get any love & I also hope they create a Matrix room as well
I really liked his "Linux sucks" presentations when I watched them many years ago, but I didn't know anything about him beyond that. Then some time last year I saw that he made another one, and I decided to watch it mainly for nostalgia, and I was shocked to see so many points about how linux companies are woke, something about opensuse firing anyone who was right-wing and redhat doing some white shaming move or something. I paused, checked his actual channel and holy shit. More than 90% was anti-woke "journalism", and has been for years now. I was severely disappointed.
something about opensuse firing anyone who was right-wing
I knew my OS of choice was awesome but damn. 💗
Niccolò, KDE developer, made a video about Bryan's... everything. It's revolting. People still bringing up his stuff must be either unaware and thus should be informed, or they're complicit. Having talked to a few, I've noticed it's usually the latter.
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His "Linux Sucks" series was also rage-bait, He's a shill & lacks morals & attacks any FOSS projects for not being on the side of politics that he is in.
Most of the FOSS outlets have outright banned him & his community from interacting since he's a menace
I'm happy with doing so just so I can see comments without signing in again. I do believe social media was geting too highly censored, and I dont trust the government to decide what to censor.
But you cant call yourself the "town square of the internet" while hiding things from people you cant monetize.
Yep. Twitter and Discord are the two most annoying walled gardens I can think of when it comes to projects (like FOSS dev).
Good news, it was mostly private for profit entities doing the censorship
Trump has now ordered NIST to reverse their recommendation on Rust.
Fuck you and have a nice day.
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Thank you! I mean how many more reasons do people need?
Why are people using bluesky? Just use mastodon or something else federated. Stay are from centralized platforms
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