Programming communities already exist - eviltoast

Hello everyone, I was wondering why did we create another programming community besides the existing ones?

programming

programmerhumor

rust

I’m sorry if this was already answered, I didn’t manage to find a relevant post.

  • RandomDevOpsDude@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    I won’t parrot the reasons, I think other comments captured that.

    However, I would MUCH rather share links in professional circles to something called programming.dev that is specifically an instance about programming rather than “choose your random generic instance” that has porn, memes, shit posts, etc. and oh look, a programming community too.

  • sorrybookbroke@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    One of those, I am not allowed to participate in or look at it due to my instance being sh.itjust.works. Behaw defederated, and thus I am not welcome in these communities. These new communities have not defederated and thus are the ones I’ll be participating in.

    If we’re not welcome, why not create another where we are?

  • DamnCatOnMyDesk@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    Because we’re in a period of rapid user migration and not everyone is aware of what communities already exist, or have a different idea about how they should be structured. After a couple months of people shifting between servers everyone will get settled and we’ll see which communities will survive vs which ones will be determined to be redundant.