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.

  • @[email protected]
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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.

    • @[email protected]
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      171 year ago

      This is basically my biggest reason for it as well; A lot easier to explain programming.dev than it is to explain beehaw.org or such

      • Josh
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        31 year ago

        @Hexarei @RandomDevOpsDude

        A lot of the time I don’t even know where a post is coming from. They show up on my mastodon feed, I reply. I’ve clicked source links before and gone to completely new lemmy instances I never knew about.

    • @PixxlMan
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      111 year ago

      To be fair, that is basically the same with reddit.

      • @[email protected]
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        1 year ago

        Absolutely, which is why I never linked to Reddit. So I’m already loving and prefferring lemmy over Reddit 100%!

    • @canpolat
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      11 year ago

      I think, for some cases, it would make sense for an instance to host just a single community or a “family” of communities. programming.dev is a good example of this. Hopefully this will happen organically (communities will consolidate in instances that make the most sense for them).