I don’t really think it’s discussed in this blog post, but maybe some effort should be placed on trying to see if rust-lang.org/community would be willing to link to a chosen instance. reddit has been partially hostile towards communities that have closed or tried to move their community. I also just think it makes sense for rust’s governance to manage a community, but, they might just want to link to one instead for now. (until if/when Mastodon and the fediverse is more successful)

On the website for rust, they do already link to a Forum, a Discord, and a Zulip chat, so maybe they would be willing to list a fediverse community too.

edit: I just realized the poster is Discourse Staff on rust’s forum.

edit 2: It’s not included in the blog post, but I would really like to be able to use rust’s domain in the fediverse. ex. user@fediverse.rust-lang.org

I really like this instance, so of course I’m 100% for the move

The problem of which instance to host a community on is a big problem for Lemmy. Grouping is an interesting idea but it causes problems as now there are different mods and admins that control subsets of the community.

Picking a single “winner” and letting the others wither seems like the right approach and will probably happen naturally but if the original instance ever shuts down or struggles under the load you will have a mess to migrate to a new instance.

If Lemmy communities were decentralized it would make a huge difference. You could just have a single community but it could survive instances coming and going (as well as many other performance and resiliency benefits). But that would be a huge change to the underlying implementation of communities.

The reddit thread is found at: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/162keij/transitioning_rrust_to_the_threadiverse/

I assume there will be some discussion there, so go and let them know what you think.