I run a few groups, like @fediversenews@venera.social, mostly on Friendica. It’s okay, but Friendica resembles Facebook Groups more than Reddit. I also like the moderation options that Lemmy has.

Currently, I’m testing jerboa, which is an Android client for Lemmy. It’s in alpha, has a few hiccups, but it’s coming along nicely.

Personally, I hope the #RedditMigration spurs adoption of more Fediverse server software. And I hope Mastodon users continue to interact with Lemmy and Kbin.

All that said, as a mod of a Reddit community (r/Sizz) I somewhat regret giving Reddit all that content. They have nerve charging so much for API access!

Hopefully, we can build a better version of social media that focuses on protocols, not platforms.

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    Weirdly enough the fact that it’s written in rust is why I am using it instead of kbin (PHP)

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            Fast because it’s pointer-based like C, but better because it’s memory safe, which means it won’t crash, leak or mysteriously overwrite it’s own data constantly.

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              I’d say that it’s fast because it’s compiled to machine code and doesn’t use garbage collection. But I see what you mean with “pointer-based”.

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                Is there anything with no garbage collection that doesn’t work with pointers? If the compiler is handling all the memory allocation for you it might as well just collect garbage, so I figured they were kind of synonymous.

                Since we’re now going into details, Rust is neat because they figured out a way to keep track of the memory safety of pointers at compile time. That’s hard to do, which is why it’s a new language and not the old standard.

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                  I would argue that on the one hand you could say that the references to objects in garbage collected languages are also pointers.

                  On the other hand, you could argue that such references are not pointers, but then you might as well argue that references in rust are not pointers.

                  I just feel like “a language with pointers” is a weird way to describe a language and it isn’t really something that causes the language to become fast. Pointers are low level constructs that are used all the time, and whether or not they are abstracted away in the high level language doesn’t automatically make it slow or fast.

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                    Hmm. Alright, what word would you use to differentiate C or Rust from, say, Python? I haven’t actually made anything with Rust, but it sounds like you can store a reference in another structure like you can in C, but you can’t AFAIK in Python.

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        Rust is a very good language but is relatively new on the scene so it has to compete against other languages that fit the same niche(primarily C++) that have been around a lot longer.

        Rust has been very popular for hobby projects for a while but it’s still pretty rare to see it for larger projects, and you still almost never see it for enterprise projects. So it’s cool seeing an app that uses it blow up.

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          It should be noted that while Rust is rarely used, some very big players are pushing it. E.g. last year Microsoft Azure’s CEO tweeted that “it’s time to halt starting any new projects in C/C++ and use Rust for those scenarios where a non-GC language is required”, Windows contains some Rust code now and the Linux kernel also supports Rust in addition to C since December.

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          I’ve written a bit less than half a million lines of Rust now and worked mainly with it in the last three companies in the past seven years. It works really well for large projects with many contributors.

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        While I lean more towards Go, I have found that any Rust project that actually reaches maturity tends to be amazingly well built.

        It might be a side-effect of Rustaceans on average being good programmers, or maybe the language itself just lends itself to robust, high performance software. Who knows.