Mo Bitar Mar 7, 2024

I am starting a Mastodon campaign 

Every time I see a post with only the #Rust tag, I will kindly ask the poster to use #RustLang instead 😇

My feed is full with unrelated content about the film, the game and of course photography of rusty metal 🤬

I will also only post using the #RustLang tag starting from now 😤

You can join me! 🤗

The goal is to let the usage of the #Rust tag vanish so people can only follow #RustLang 😃

Show threadMo Bitar May 20, 2024

The above campaign about promoting the #RustLang tag instead of #Rust failed. At least I will not try to push it anymore 😞

Newcomers often just use the #Rust tag first. So the correction will never end.

Decentralization has its bad sides. Are there any ideas to improve the situation of using a too general tag on #Mastodon?

Thanks for your support anyway 🤗

Show threadMo Bitar May 20, 2024

To all developers, not only of programming languages: Please pick a unique name for your software 

Python, Rust, Go, Julia, etc are bad names for searchability 

Pick a name where you get almost no results on a search engine. Something like OxiTraffic. Not the most sexy name, but unique. I searched for the name first before choosing it.

Show threadTimothy Wolodzko
@mo8it No. First of all, picking a name is not about searchability. If it were, the best name would be a long chain of completely random characters (100% unique). Even brands and commercial products, that want to be easily discoverable because they make money on it, don't do it like this. Second, searchability is not about unique names. 1001 factors influence your position in search results.
May 20, 2024 at 9:15pmWeb