The title says it all: How can we grow the Rust community here on Lemmy? Many users fled Reddit or are here for different reasons. But compared to it's commercial big brother, the Rust community here, feels more or less dead. I would like to discuss ideas, on how we can changes that and make Lemmy the default for Rust related discussions, instead of Reddit.

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[–] v9CYKjLeia10dZpz88iU@programming.dev 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] ericjmorey@programming.dev 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I don't think that would be allowed on Programming.dev or Reddit.com

[–] v9CYKjLeia10dZpz88iU@programming.dev 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] ericjmorey@programming.dev 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

There's an entire instance that implimented your proposal that was quickly blocked by the largest instances. They were considered spam. It resulted in the opposite of growing community engagement.

[–] v9CYKjLeia10dZpz88iU@programming.dev 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] ericjmorey@programming.dev 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Getting hung up on the difference between a mirror and a relay is moot. I don't see how people would be more accepting of that. In fact it seems like more people would object to having their posts mirrored to reddit considering the reason many are here is to stop participating on Reddit.

And it doesn't eliminate the initial problem which is that the posts will be considered spam by the largest instances.

So you could not care and do it yourself, but I suspect that it will result in the same reduction in community engagement as the prior attempt.

[–] v9CYKjLeia10dZpz88iU@programming.dev 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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