After the (temporary) defederation announcement of earlier i checked the Lemmy repo to see if there was already a ticket on the federation limiting option like Mastodon’s that people mentioned Lemmy doesn’t yet have. Not only i didn’t find it, i also saw that there’s about 200+ open tickets of variable importance. Also saw that it’s maintained mostly by the two main devs, the difference in commits between them and even the next contributors is vast. This is normal and in other circumstances it’d grow organically, but considering the huge influx of users lately, which will likely take months to slow down, they just don’t have the same time to invest on this, and many things risk being neglected. I’m a sysadmin, haven’t coded anything big in at least a decade and a half beyond small helper scripts in Bash or Python, and haven’t ever touched Rust, so can’t help there, but maybe some of you Rust aficionados can give some time to help essentially all of Lemmy. The same can be said of Kbin of course, although that’s PHP, and there is exacerbated by it being just the single dev.
Seriously? What language do you use? How much experience do you have?
Them programming in COBOL and never leaving their room for forty years is the only explanation I can think of for not at least hearing of Rust lol
There’s a lucky ten thousand every day though.
I’ve heard of Rust. I’m not a developer, just use python occasionally.
Just blows my mind. Then again, there are plenty of people who program for work, go home at 5pm, and never venturing outside their walled garden.