Whoa thanks! I subbed to your two communities over there.
I like the idea of having topic-based instances, because then you can have a collection of communities dedicated to it. IE https://lemmyrs.org/c/{memes, news, support}, etc.
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Greetings! The legend himself!
I made the suggested communities over at lemmyrs.org. The next few weeks are going to be very interesting!
I would suggest something like help for folks to ask for help.
This seems like unnecessary fragmentation. Reddit became huge because it gave people interested in a topic a one-stop place to discuss their topic. Putting the interested people together gave a network effect that attracted even more participants.
Creating new discussion venues (subreddits, usenet groups) is generally only worthwhile if an existing venue gets too crowded or cluttered to discuss a niche topic, or the niche topic becomes big enough that the existing venue is happier if the niche splits off. Example: there is a general programming forum, Rust gets invented and people talk about it there, then Rust becomes a big enough topic that a Rust forum is warranted.
I'm a not-even-newbie to Rust but I'd be happier if the lemmy.ml and lemmyrs.org Rust forums somehow got merged. Because of federation, I'm basically indifferent to which Lemmy instance actually hosts it.
Subscribed, great idea. Keep the transparency on the costs and I think you'll find assistance with them fairly easily.
This should be de-stickied. The instance appears to be receiving zero maintenance (still on 0.17.4, enough said).
It appears that @[email protected] has been busy at his job recently and hasn't had much spare time. He also ran into some issues upgrading to 0.18.1.
I don't this it's necessary to desticky this just yet, as it is of paramount importance to get smaller instances up and running at this stage. These comments and the posts on the server itself explain the situation well enough. If he's still on 0.17.4 in a few weeks then I would probably agree with you, and I appreciate you bringing it to people's attention.
Still on 0.17.4 btw.
Cool! I just don't get yet how I can subscribe to federated channels. Sometimes I find them in the search, sometimes not. This one does not show up. I tried searching for [email protected] - no result. Any ideas?
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 :)
The first time anyone from your instance searches it, it actually makes it show up. Search again, it should be there.
I don't see a reason to migrate to another community. What guarantee is there that you don't loose interest in hosting lemmy next week? The lemmy.ml instance is far older and I don't think it will disappear any time soon, also the mod of this community is one of the lemmy maintainers (which is incidentally also written in rust).
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 :)
hi, i recently joined Lemmy with the Rust instance, i love the language and having a federated network is a really cool idea
Could you make a lemmyrs.org/c/rust channel?
If by channel you mean a community (I don't really know the difference), I've made one at /c/rustlang
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