This is now my new home for the topic.
this post was submitted on 28 Mar 2025
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To discuss how to grow and manage communities / magazines on Lemmy, Mbin, Piefed and Sublinks
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- https://lemmy-federate.com/ to federate your community to a lot of instances
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- [email protected] to keep tabs on where new users might come from :)
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Thank you for posting there !
It's the first piefed community I started using!
There is also:
I'm not too keen on Piefed because it's written in Python, which is multiple times less than Rust (what Lemmy is written in) for a server back-end application. It just seems like a waste of electricity or adding more carbon to the atmosphere than it should, for a widely-used server application.
Edit: "less [performant]" - missed a word there.
I've come off seeing a lot of people express dissent in a rather acidic manner, so I just appreciate that you have stated an opposing view in a way that is informative, and a lot less "anyone who disagrees is [bad thing]", "I will say that anyone who approves of [thing I don't] masturbates to it as a way to be hurtful and insulting", "you disagree? I will position you as overly emotional and myself as the realist by saying 'Cope'", etc.
You've made me curious about various programming languages' efficiency, specifically in how choice of language might affect resource consumption. Not just CPU cycles but carbon and electricity. And I'm actually going to look into it instead of feeling put off enough by vitriol that I just wash my hands of the entire disagreement and walk away. +1, this is how you disagree online.
Yes, I may be venting my feelings about seeing too many people being mean online.
Thanks for your thoughtful reply! I feel similarly about mean replies online, which is why I usually try not to contribute to that trend. If nothing else, I at least try not to escalate arguments.
Regarding programming languages' efficiency, it's a pretty interesting topic to consider in this time of climate change. There can be trade-offs like for example in the case of Python vs. Rust, while you gain a lot in terms of performance and resource utilization with Rust, you lose a lot in terms of development speed, from what I understand (I have not programmed with Rust yet, nor any large projects with Python). I hope that more programmers begin to consider these factors when picking a language to develop with.
Take care.
That was a nice comment
- Lemmy.ml: https://feddit.nl/post/16246531
- midwest.social seems inactive
- lemmy.zip only has one moderator
What is your stance on Mbin?
I didn't look at the details of those three communities before posting them. I was just pointing out what I had found on a search. I don't mind lemmy.ml. and prefer it over lemmy.world, but I can understand that some people don't like .ml. I'm glad that you and others are creating alternatives to .world communities anyway.
I figure that Mbin is not too bad, since PHP seems to be quite a bit faster than Python too.
Alright, so I just learned about [email protected]. It's a NodeBB instance run by the WeDistribute team, led by @[email protected] and it can interoperate with Lemmy and Mastodon and the mbin family of software.
Can we agree that it is a better fit than any of the existing alternatives?
Does it work for your instance? My local version of https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/[email protected] isn't up to date
I tried to fetch the latest post https://forum.wedistribute.org/topic/0c196ca4-cc2e-41be-92d5-5b29ef678565/hands-on-with-ghost-s-new-activitypub-beta but that didn't work
Looks like everything worked fine except for pulling posts via the search API.
If you want to direct the efforts to move there I'd join you.
Let's monitor in the coming days if posts natively created on NodeBB make it to Lemmy. That's the one part I'm not sure about
I still have not tried PieFed yet but I always find myself cheering it on whenever I see it.
It has great potential
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