cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/570507
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.
Can we stop with this condescending nonsense?
Can we stop tone-policing friendly heads-up? It’s all a long-winded recommendation and reminder to go back to the Rust book if (or rather when) you get stuck.
Even Bryan Cantrill ended up reading through the book, going step by step. There’s no shame to it.
I don’t find “Oh my sweet summer child :)” all that friendly, I find it condescending and weird. Recommending the Rust book I have no issue with.
It means as much as “You have not yet experienced the hardships I have, and therefore have an idealistic view of things”.
As to weird well yes it’s a Game of Thrones reference.