I’ve only partially read over you wrote and am heading into the mountains on vacation, but I will try to read over what you’ve written here sometime this weekend.

I completely agree.

You have to select what you want to share. Here’s what it looks like when I try to share my contact card.

I too can afford anything I want and I still pirate. A lot of the time it’s just not even possible to find something on a streaming service I actually pay for and I’m honestly sick of giving corporations my information when I want to buy something and then they turn around and sell it immediately so I get so much spam. At that point it’s not about not being able to afford it. It’s that the media companies are so greedy they can’t just take a simple payment without trying to turn it into something more. At that point it’s pointless to try and get something legitimately.

I replaced google with Kagi. It’s much much much better. So much better that I’m literally willing to pay for a search engine. It just doesn’t compare.

there weren't many comments when I originally commented. pretty sure it got spam removed from the links.

Hm. I'm not sure I understand the problem. I don't see anything like this in the current issues list. Maybe if you could describe it a bit more I might be able to log something?

I haven’t heard about this. Is this the Facebook meta? Are they doing something with the fediverse?

Oh I’m not saying what your doing over at programming.dev is wrong or insufficient… Honestly I don’t know what your doing to ensure the lemmy server exists long term (though its great to hear you’ve got some policies in place already).

Oh yes, I completely understood you weren't saying that. I'm asking what we can do to make it more likely for the community to want to be at !rust@programming.dev! I want to do as much as possible! The rust community would be a huge benefit to others in the instance, and we think others will be more likely to want to work on the Lemmy project if the Rust community does join. Having programmers alongside each other will be really helpful to us all I think.

I’m more thinking the rust community should evaluate options and vote, or some rust subgroup of the leadership should set criteria to ensure that another reddit-type event doesn’t happen again (the home of this community must be open-source, with data backups publicly available, with a governing body and a line of succession or something, etc).

Yeah I'd love to see this! The data backups being publicly available might cause a problem (then your usernames and passwords have a chance of being cracked 😬), but other than that, yeah I completely agree!

The upside is that the rust community gets to own its own data.

Well, sure, if you know who the owner of lemmyrs is, and if they follow all the other stuff you talk about here.

If programming.dev decides to shut down tomorrow, and posts and comments made there are gone. Lemmy doesn’t mirror or cache… all that data lives solely on the server ran by somebody.

Correct! Which is why I've already taken great pains to make sure that if something happens to me (owner of programming.dev) that the server continues to run. I already have someone else managing the domain with me, several people have access to the server. Backups occur daily. Is some sort of "legally separated backup where if I die the lawyers can hand over the db backups to someone else and they can take over" what you're looking for? I am trying very hard to make sure that the website does not depend on a single person to keep it running, but it seems like a lot of people want something to happen, but can't describe what that is.

Hi, creator of programming.dev here. What could we do to prove reliability to you? Would open graphs and metrics of the current state of the service help? Would current server costs and how much has been covered by donations help? Would knowing the names of everyone with access to the server, on the admin team, or access to the domain name help?

It seems to me like a user stood up an instance of lemmy and because it has rs as part of the name you might be treating it like the Rust community's, but to me, it's exactly the same as programming.dev, except it has a lot less chance of staying running.

apparently the slug has to be at least three characters. :(