I mod the !iiiiiiitttttttttttt@lemmy.world community, I’ve managed to grow the number of subscribers from 360 to 800.

I’m thinking of moving it to programming.dev. Is this a good idea? I made a post asking this and I’m looking for feedback there.

  • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catEnglish
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    1 day ago
    1. Yes please, lemmy.world is awful (and in particular hosting there is a disservice to places like Beehaw that don’t feel like dealing with the daily noise and have defederated from them)
    2. Programming.dev seems a little clueless to me in terms of the culture. I read a lot of the userbase’s mindset as sort of “I aspire to be a rock star programmer, check me out I’m awesome” as opposed to “I am good at programming and take it seriously because I care about it.” Of course there is always variability based on the individual, and that first thing is in no short supply anywhere on the internet.
    3. I fully agree with whoever it was that said not everyone will move and that’s okay. You might shut down the old community but just be aware that bottom line, the users are going to do what they want to do.
    4. Maybe sh.itjust.works or lemmy.sdf.org or lemm.ee? Or infosec.pub? All of those seem extremely nerd-friendly without being overly self-important about it.
    • irelephant [he/him]🍭@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      1·
      12 hours ago

      I read a lot of the userbase’s mindset as sort of “I aspire to be a rock star programmer, check me out I’m awesome”

      Thats interesting, I didn’t notice that.

      I may avoid moving it to .ee, its the second largest server, and while its better i’d like to bring it somewhere smaller.

          • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catEnglish
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            6 hours ago

            Maybe it’s me. I just have noticed this very particular type of self-important cluelessness that tends to concentrate itself in some specific communities. I’ve definitely had people who are 100% wrong who will get in extended arguments with me about how this wrong thing that they think is obviously right, and spend a bunch of time “debunking” some wild strawman that I never said. Like “How can you say Linux printing is bad, you must be one of those Window fanboys, Windows sucks, don’t you understand open source is better you twatface how dare you.” Something like that.

            In fairness, now that I think about it I think that is just a lot of Linux / programming related communities on Lemmy in general. Maybe it’s not fair to blame it on programming.dev just because they concentrate on that type of content and so will necessarily tend to attract that type of user.