I run a few groups, like @fediversenews@venera.social, mostly on Friendica. It’s okay, but Friendica resembles Facebook Groups more than Reddit. I also like the moderation options that Lemmy has.

Currently, I’m testing jerboa, which is an Android client for Lemmy. It’s in alpha, has a few hiccups, but it’s coming along nicely.

Personally, I hope the #RedditMigration spurs adoption of more Fediverse server software. And I hope Mastodon users continue to interact with Lemmy and Kbin.

All that said, as a mod of a Reddit community (r/Sizz) I somewhat regret giving Reddit all that content. They have nerve charging so much for API access!

Hopefully, we can build a better version of social media that focuses on protocols, not platforms.

  • unique_hemp@discuss.tchncs.de
    9·
    3 years ago

    It’s looking great! I joined just 2 days ago and the communities I subscribed to are already looking much more lively today. Thanks, Reddit blackout!

    Also written in Rust, btw :)

    • nii236@lemmy.jtmn.devEnglish
      31·
      3 years ago

      Weirdly enough the fact that it’s written in rust is why I am using it instead of kbin (PHP)

        • bhj 🦥@lemmy.oneEnglish
          1·
          3 years ago

          Rust is a very good language but is relatively new on the scene so it has to compete against other languages that fit the same niche(primarily C++) that have been around a lot longer.

          Rust has been very popular for hobby projects for a while but it’s still pretty rare to see it for larger projects, and you still almost never see it for enterprise projects. So it’s cool seeing an app that uses it blow up.

          • Ragoo@feddit.deEnglish
            2·
            3 years ago

            It should be noted that while Rust is rarely used, some very big players are pushing it. E.g. last year Microsoft Azure’s CEO tweeted that “it’s time to halt starting any new projects in C/C++ and use Rust for those scenarios where a non-GC language is required”, Windows contains some Rust code now and the Linux kernel also supports Rust in addition to C since December.

            • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
              3·
              3 years ago

              Fast because it’s pointer-based like C/C++, but better because it’s memory safe, which means it won’t crash, leak or mysteriously overwrite it’s own data constantly.

              • Danacus@lemmy.vanoverloop.xyzEnglish
                2·
                3 years ago

                I’d say that it’s fast because it’s compiled to machine code and doesn’t use garbage collection. But I see what you mean with “pointer-based”.

          • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
            1·
            2 days ago

            Hello future person, Kbin is dead now. You can go ahead and give me your pitch for why PHP is a great programming language, though - I’ve never used it.

            You could also word that as “deferring to other people with more experience trying to use PHP”.

            • Greyscale@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
              1·
              2 days ago

              It gets a lot of hate. But it also drives a whole bunch of large businesses, and a lot of products. Its not trendy, but it gets the work done. In the past there were many bad products made ontop of it, but those products made sales, so were they really all that bad?

              Its popular to use it like a punching bag, but the reality is its sigificantly better than the time period where most of the “hate” comes from. A time before javascript.

              Its funny, people struggle to hit c10k with modern application stacks, but we had been doing it since before the iPhone.

              I quite like it, its quite clean, the tooling isn’t painful, and its fairly easy to make applications go fast.

              tl;dr its a conservative technical choice, and ergo, unfashionable, but also drives a good portion of the internet.

              Disclosure: I write PHP unless I have a good reason not to, I also do some .Net and some Go.

              • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
                1·
                2 days ago

                Interesting to hear it’s fast.

                Saying “you can use it and it has been used a lot” feels a bit like faint praise, on the other hand. I appreciate the effort to write me up a reply, though.

                • Greyscale@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
                  1·
                  1 day ago

                  Honestly, keeping the excitable children in TypeScript-land is for the best. I just wish they’d shut the fuck up about their AI workflows while I’m around.

                  It is quite performant, most of the performance issues are more bad architecture than anything else.

                  Also it scales horizontally rather well without requiring me to build the infrastructure out before the need is there.