The official Rust project account will no longer be active on X : rust

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (6 children)

Oh nyoooo, Rust is woke

Lunduke (probably)

He crapped on Debian for this reason too. & for some reason people think he's a journalist.

Also will Pleroma & Akkoma get any love & I also hope they create a Matrix room as well

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[+] [email protected] -14 points 4 weeks ago (6 children)

I still dont get why people use bluesky. I mean if you really want a pseudo federated social media, might as well use twitter and not migrate. Its ridiculous.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago

Moderation is better, including better personal moderation filters, etc

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago

Bluesky is excellent that's why.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 weeks ago

Network effect. Its where everyone is.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I assume people want something centralised like Twitter but without Musk. Most people don't care about federation and don't want the extra complexity and division it causes.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 4 weeks ago

Because it is a decently polished app that is by many metrics a step up from Twitter, and it has a ton of people. Social networks will always be a numbers game. Some will hit the curve and some won’t, but it is often not linked to technical merit.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago

@neme After reading the replies on this post on X, I realized that leaving X is definitely a good idea.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 weeks ago

Good. No one with any sense still uses that site.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

Why are people using bluesky? Just use mastodon or something else federated. Stay are from centralized platforms

[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 weeks ago (7 children)

It does have federation, just a different model

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

First off they are using Mastodon. And secondly Mastodon is still pretty half baked as a platform. If it was as far along as Lemmy is, which is ironic because I think Mastodon was developed first, then people would probably be using it more. I just don't think anyone's putting in the man hours to streamline it the way they have with Lemmy.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 4 weeks ago

@secret300 @neme They want old Twitter back, not federation.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (6 children)

Nitter link: https://nitter.net/rustlang/status/1908479478159818903

It's funny how many people are against this. They sure do like to lick elon's boots.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 weeks ago

Those people wrote a "hello world" and gave up after having to do something using an ampsand (&)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

The people in support there likely got deprioritized.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 weeks ago

It's funny how many people care one way or another. It's a programming language, and if I want updates, I'll check their changelog. They have incredibly consistent releases, so why would I need a notification on SM when they release again on that schedule?

I don't get it. Post or don't, I don't care, just write good code.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 weeks ago

Holy crap. I don't go on Twitsack any more but I guess I shouldn't be surprised the remaining people are clowns.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Rust is... woke?!?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I love this gif, where'd you get it from?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago

I searched "garten of banban sad gif" on tenor

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 weeks ago

Thank you! I mean how many more reasons do people need?

[–] [email protected] 62 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (4 children)

I don't understand why any business is active on any social media, especially ones run by billionaires.

Post your shit to a website.

Have it auto-mirror to a social media platform.

Funnel questions back to your own website.

Done.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Have it auto-mirror to a social media platform.

That's what it is most of the time. The thing is that native content just does a lot better than linked content. Think about how often someone will see a link and not click it. If they don't have to click and you meet them on the website they're already on, your content is consumed a lot more. I'm not just talking about so-called "content creators", but also things like what the Rust account would post.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago

It's pretty easy to automate posting content instead of just a link.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

I have been recently reminiscing with some friends about the internet back when instead of massive websites that held everything, there were small forums with specialized focus. You could get to know the people in the forums over time. It was so much better than the shit that exists today.

I would love to join forums made by these projects. I don’t care if I have to have a bunch of accounts. Individual forums and RSS feeds are awesome. Since moving to RSS I have drastically reduced my mindless scrolling.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Ah yes phpBB those were the days. Wait, no they weren't. They sucked. Old forum software was one of the worst computing experiences I remember.

Want to download a custom Android ROM? Hope you like reading through this 120 page thread one page at a time. Oh and each message will be surrounded by a metric mile of profile pictures and signature.

RSS was pretty great though, I'll give you that.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago

rss is still everywhere.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago

Marketing. People expect to see different things on a website vs Twitter/X so the same content won't perform the same on each. So for a business it makes sense to post different things on your website vs Twitter/X.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Marketers are lazy.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Consumers are lazy and are trained that anything not on an app is dangerous and scary.

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[–] [email protected] 94 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Surprised it didn't rewrite it's own X with blackjack and concurrency

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm actually surprised there aren't already 20 alternatives to Twitter written in Rust

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[–] [email protected] 154 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

wait until you hear about this project called lemmy

[–] [email protected] 102 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Lemmy was written in Rust?

(Edit: damn, over 75% of the codebase is rust. Nice)

[–] [email protected] 101 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

The official Rust project account will no longer be active on Twitter

Thank me later alligator.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Twitter hasn’t existed for a while. Rust didn’t leave twitter, they left a corpse

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