The title says it all: How can we grow the Rust community here on Lemmy? Many users fled Reddit or are here for different reasons. But compared to it’s commercial big brother, the Rust community here, feels more or less dead. I would like to discuss ideas, on how we can changes that and make Lemmy the default for Rust related discussions, instead of Reddit.
I don’t think you could name a single example of a relay. There were mirrors, like zerobytes.monster which took every post and mirrored them without relaying anything back to reddit.
edit: Relays also show up in other places too. I’ve seen people relay Discord servers with Matrix accounts. It might make sense to relay GitHub discussion forums or similar content elsewhere in the fediverse.
Getting hung up on the difference between a mirror and a relay is moot. I don’t see how people would be more accepting of that. In fact it seems like more people would object to having their posts mirrored to reddit considering the reason many are here is to stop participating on Reddit.
And it doesn’t eliminate the initial problem which is that the posts will be considered spam by the largest instances.
So you could not care and do it yourself, but I suspect that it will result in the same reduction in community engagement as the prior attempt.
If you don’t recognize the difference, then I’m done discussing this with you.