Hello everyone, I was wondering why did we create another programming community besides the existing ones?
I’m sorry if this was already answered, I didn’t manage to find a relevant post.
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I won’t parrot the reasons, I think other comments captured that.
However, I would MUCH rather share links in professional circles to something called
programming.devthat is specifically an instance about programming rather than “choose your random generic instance” that has porn, memes, shit posts, etc. and oh look, a programming community too.This is basically my biggest reason for it as well; A lot easier to explain
programming.devthan it is to explainbeehaw.orgor suchTo be fair, that is basically the same with reddit.
Absolutely, which is why I never linked to Reddit. So I’m already loving and prefferring lemmy over Reddit 100%!
For future reference I think this post would be a good candidate for Programming Meta community we have here. (Not saying you did something wrong, just sharing that it exists 👍.)
Because we can. Because that’s how federation works. If you don’t like this instance, go to another. Or make meaningful strides to make this one what you would like. Beehaw already defederated from Lemmy.world, so I can’t even see it. It’s just a preference and if there is no activy at any given instance… Then that’s fine. Maybe each find its own community preferences and rules. Maybe you just participate in both like many people are.
If we had a large user base, I would totally see the value, but right now lemmy is still relatively small. Don’t you think new content will be too slow? Especially the rust community with around 300 subs for each one.
I presume, since this whole instance is programming specifically, it makes sense to have programming communities here, even if other instances have their own.
These concerns could be mitigated if/when these feature requests get implemented:
- Community Grouping #3071
- User-based Community Groups #3193
One of those, I am not allowed to participate in or look at it due to my instance being sh.itjust.works. Behaw defederated, and thus I am not welcome in these communities. These new communities have not defederated and thus are the ones I’ll be participating in.
If we’re not welcome, why not create another where we are?
Because we’re in a period of rapid user migration and not everyone is aware of what communities already exist, or have a different idea about how they should be structured. After a couple months of people shifting between servers everyone will get settled and we’ll see which communities will survive vs which ones will be determined to be redundant.
