[Disclaimer: Lemmy newb here]
There are currently 3 Rust communities across 3 instances: programming.dev, lemmyrs.org and this one (lemmy.ml). I know it’s still very early for the migration from /r/rust, but it would split the community if there are so many options and nobody knows which is the “right” one. Currently this community has the most subscribers, but it would make sense if the Rust community finds its new home in one of the other instances.
- lemmyrs.org seems like the logical solution if instance-wide rules are paramount and “non-negotiable”
- personally I would love a programming-centric instance and programming.dev seems like a good way. Rust is not the only language I’m actively using (unfortunately :)). Maybe there can be community-specific rules that “enforce” the Rust CoC and the Rust community can find a home there?
Either way, the current situation has the most negative impact.
Thoughts?
Not this one, for sure. lemmy.ml is facing bad performance issues and downtime because of the volume of activity and its hosting provider doesn’t allow it to scale easily. Some of the comments on this post aren’t federating to other instances because of the load on lemmy.ml (on my instance, I only see one comment). lemmyrs.org is my choice if there had to be only one Rust community, although I would prefer to see a “multireddit” implementation where all of the Rust communities could be grouped into one subscribeable feed.