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.

  • redcalcium@c.calciumlabs.com
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    1 year ago

    Just a general tip: don’t use your distro version of rust (Lemmy) and nodejs (lemmy-UI). Instead, install them using a version manager, which allows you to switch to different versions of rust or nodejs without being tied to whatever version your distro have in their repository. This is very useful during development when you often need to try different versions to debug an issue (e.g. is this bug only happen on certain compiler version?), testing an upcoming beta features, etc. This apply to most programming languages as well, such as Python, PHP, Go, etc.

    For rust, rustup seems to be a popular choice. For nodejs, nvm and asdf is quite popular. asdf even support both rust and nodejs.

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      1 year ago

      rustup seems to be a popular choice

      Not just that, it’s the official way of installing and updating your Rust toolchain, maintained by the Rust project themselves.