Hopefully, I’m not breaking any rules by posting this here!

I thought that instead of every community being on the main lemmy.ml instance I’d host a different (dedicated) instance for refugee rustaceans to get a hang of the fediverse.

It’s listed on join-lemmy/instances and the link is lemmyrs.org, everyone is welcome!

  • solrize@lemmy.mlEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • RunAwayFrog@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    51·
    1 year ago

    This should be de-stickied. The instance appears to be receiving zero maintenance (still on 0.17.4, enough said).

    • imaqtpie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      32·
      1 year ago

      It appears that @admin@lemmyrs.org 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.

  • Mjb@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Subscribed, great idea. Keep the transparency on the costs and I think you’ll find assistance with them fairly easily.

  • e8d79@feddit.deEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    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).

    • lemmyrs@lemmyrs.orgOPEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      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 :)

  • Dessalines@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • iquick@lemmyrs.orgEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    hi, i recently joined Lemmy with the Rust instance, i love the language and having a federated network is a really cool idea

  • teri@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    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 !rustlang@lemmyrs.org - no result. Any ideas?

    • lemmyrs@lemmyrs.orgOPEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      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 :)

    • 100beep@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      The first time anyone from your instance searches it, it actually makes it show up. Search again, it should be there.