Learning Rust and Lemmy

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A collaborative space for people to work together on learning Rust, learning about the Lemmy code base, discussing whatever confusions or difficulties we're having in these endeavours, and solving problems, including, hopefully, some contributions back to the Lemmy code base.

Rules TL;DR: Be nice, constructive, and focus on learning and working together on understanding Rust and Lemmy.

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Policies and Purposes

  1. This is a place to learn and work together.
  2. Questions and curiosity is welcome and encouraged.
  3. This isn't a technical support community. Those with technical knowledge and experienced aren't obliged to help, though such is very welcome. This is closer to a library of study groups than stackoverflow. Though, forming a repository of useful information would be a good side effect.
  4. This isn't an issue tracker for Lemmy (or Rust) or a place for suggestions. Instead, it's where the nature of an issue, what possible solutions might exist and how they could be or were implemented can be discussed, or, where the means by which a particular suggestion could be implemented is discussed.

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Rules

  1. Lemmy.ml rule 2 applies strongly: "Be respectful, even when disagreeing. Everyone should feel welcome" (see Dessalines's post). This is a constructive space.
  2. Don't demean, intimidate or do anything that isn't constructive and encouraging to anyone trying to learn or understand. People should feel free to ask questions, be curious, and fill their gaps knowledge and understanding.
  3. Posts and comments should be (more or less) within scope (on which see Policies and Purposes above).
  4. See the Lemmy Code of Conduct
  5. Where applicable, rules should be interpreted in light of the Policies and Purposes.

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[META] How shall this place work? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Open question, obviously.

The challenge is that some top-down structure and prompting, IMO, can help get things going. Moreover, some structure in the way people interact here might actually help collaboration.

My thoughts (I may have overthought this) ...

  • Generally structure things in order to combine both top-down structure and organisation and bottom-up self-organisation.
  • Top Down (mods and "senior" community members)
    • Guide and encourage operations
    • Managing pinned posts for quasi-wiki style content
    • Regular posts
      • Maybe collect interesting questions and thoughts from the activity in the community?
      • Maybe just ask my own interesting questions
      • Maybe collect interesting issues and PRs from the repo.
    • Encouraging and gathering participation and posts/content from people that may have something to contribute.
  • Bottom Up (learners)
    • Ask questions!
    • Try to get setup to experiment and work things out for yourself (rust environment and then lemmy development setup)
    • Collect and digest relevant learning materials
    • Post insights and learnings, however rough and uncertain they may be
    • Post ideas for something to explore and work out or work on together
  • Use posts and aggregating posts with links to other posts as quasi wiki. IE, Use running threads and link lists to provide places for general discussion and links to general or past discussions.
    • EG, "Lemmy's Codebase Structure and Overview". No need to have multiple posts on this question. Instead, there can be a running thread on it. People can make new top-level comments, and others can visit the post and sort by new to catch up and reply to new questions and thoughts.
      • Danger being that people don't know where to go to engage.
      • Fuzzy line between what fits in a running thread and what deserves its own post ... idea would be when a question or issue feels large and general enough to warrant a separate conversation.
      • But, running threads can contain links to other relevant posts and so be link-lists too.
      • Possible "running threads":
        • Overview of Lemmy's codebase
        • Rust Basics
        • Moderate and Advanced Rust
        • ActivityPub Fundamentals
        • Getting Started on Running Lemmy for development
  • Tags for kinds of posts? EG [META], [RUST BASICS], [RUNNING THREAD].
    • No need to be too strict about this I think, at least in the early stages.
    • The aim is just to help people find content relevant to them and where they are up to.
    • There would be some overlap here between these tags and any extant "running threads" (if people adopt them), but that's fine IMO, as they differ in their function (general discussion v discrete post/project/topic) with conversations freely flowing between them where appropriate.
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Introduction to the (first) moderator (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Hi!

I'm starting this community because I want it to exist. I think it could be really awesome and I'm looking forward to being a part of it!

I'm not a technical authority on Lemmy or Rust, at all. You should see me as a "learner" here as much as anyone else. I see my role here as a "community manager", not a leader or anything like that.

And in that spirit, I don't see myself as "owning" this community in any way. Meta discussions on the community and me as a moderator are welcome and encouraged, provided, of course, that they're constructive and respectful. I've not moderated a sub-lemmy or sub-reddit before (only small chat groups), so in reality, I'm not a "good" moderator and will simply be doing my best. It's inevitable that I'll do something stupid, careless or misguided and I'm happy to hear feedback.

If you also want to become a moderator, let me know. If you think I should work on something as a moderator, let me know. If you think it'd be better if I stood down as moderator, let me know. This community isn't mine, it's ours. Any help and guidance is most welcome! The only thing I'd ask, apart from respectfulness, is to appreciate that an inundation of feedback can be a bit much and I'm a finite person with finite time burdened with an emotional brain.