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.
Maybe I should learn Rust for this. I’ve never used it but otherwise I’ve got 20 years of programming experience so can probably pick it up. I’m very experienced with web development so maybe that’s a better area where I can contribute.
I’m in the same boat. I’m thinking this might be the opportunity for me to give Rust a try.
Also in the same boat, and I’ve been putting some thought into combing through the code and actually giving it a go between finding both Lemmy and a game called Veloren that are both small community-made projects in Rust that could use some extra contributions.
Similar 20+ years programmer here. Even before Lemmy Rust was top of my list for languages to learn. Now I’ve got a boost in motivation too.
Haha same. Everytime I try to learn Rust I fail because of how difficult it is. At least now I have a reason I failed, as opposed to “I want to learn Rust”