Chris TrottierJun 12, 2023

Redditors, how do you like Lemmy?

https://beehaw.org/post/521802

Redditors, how do you like Lemmy? - Beehaw

I run a few groups, like @[email protected], 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 sours 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.

Show threadunique_hemp

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 :)

Jun 12, 2023 at 11:46pmWeb
Show threadPenguinCoderJun 13, 2023

How do you know something is developed with Rust?

Don't worry, the devs will tell you.

Show threadKNovaJun 13, 2023
Check the GitHub! It’s linked at the bottom of the web page (“Code”)
Show threadbhj 🦥Jun 13, 2023
I haven't been here much longer. It's been really cool seeing all of the communities pop up as users flood in.
Show threadnii236Jun 13, 2023
Weirdly enough the fact that it’s written in rust is why I am using it instead of kbin (PHP)
Show threadOsnapitsjoeyJun 13, 2023
What makes rust so special?
Show threadJ_C___ (lemmy.place)Jun 13, 2023
Show threadOsnapitsjoeyJun 13, 2023
God damn! Okay now I'm fully behind it
Show threadCanadaPlusJun 13, 2023
Fast because it's pointer-based like C, but better because it's memory safe, which means it won't crash, leak or mysteriously overwrite it's own data constantly.
Show threadbhj 🦥Jun 13, 2023

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.

Show threadCanadaPlusJun 13, 2023
PHP!? They're writing the shiny new thing in the joke language from r/ProgrammerHumor?
Show threadnii236Jun 13, 2023

Exactly right?

To the average Redditor I guess its fine, but to me its unacceptable haha.

Repo link: https://github.com/ernestwisniewski/kbin

Show threadCanadaPlusJun 13, 2023
Welp, I guess I chose right after all.
Show threadnii236Jun 13, 2023

There is:

  • The right choice
  • The other choice (PHP)
  • The wrong choice (PHP)
Show threadGreyscaleMar 12

lol

Imagine letting the circle jerk program you like that.

Show threadCanadaPlusMar 12

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”.

Show threadGreyscaleMar 12

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.

Show threadCanadaPlusMar 12

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.

Show threadGreyscaleMar 12
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.