Sorry if this seems like a silly question but I have noticed over the last few months my feed(?) has started to act odd.

No matter what I do I don’t see any posts from .world. I checked and mander does not seem to block .world (kinda why I liked this instance) and even weirder is how my feed gets filled with mostly .ml posts with almost no activity no matter how I sort.

This did not happen before and got me thinking, I don’t even know how this works across federated instances.

Does anyone know:

  • How does the sorting work on an instance? Is it all the same no matter what instance it is?

  • Did anything change in the last few months, that would cause all .world (and I assume others) posts to not show?

  • Other then changing instances what can I do to mitigate the weird slanted results?

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    01·
    3 months ago

    I’m actually mildly surprised it’s still only two devs. Are they treating it like a walled garden, or is there really a complete lack of interest in contributing to the codebase?

    • nutomic@lemmy.mlEnglish
      51·
      3 months ago

      We are two fulltime developers and a handful of devs who regularly contribute in their free time. We could definitely use more devs but the donations are simply not enough.

    • Blaze@reddthat.comEnglish
      11·
      3 months ago

      Rust is a niche language

      It’s like starting a book club in Esperanto compared to English. Sure, Esperanto is supposedly a better language, but very few people know about it

      • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        12·
        3 months ago

        Rust is not a niche language. It’s a strict and strongly opinionated language by design. People with background in strongly typed languages, who additionally use opinionated linters and formatters have an easier time adjusting. JavaScript “devs” (note: distinct from “software engineers”) probably pull their hair out over a lot of stuff in because in my experience, many js devs know enough about the language to work proficiently in a couple of frameworks, but haven’t really dug into the nuances of the language, and also have limited experience with strong typing.

          • nutomic@lemmy.mlEnglish
            3·
            3 months ago

            The Lemmy frontend is written in Typescript which is a very popular language, yet it has even less contributors than the backend.

          • SorteKanin@feddit.dkEnglish
            1·
            3 months ago

            But maybe Rust isn’t that niche, but the Fediverse apps and projects are niche themselves.

            Lemmy is niche even within the fediverse, where microblogging still dominates and the threadiverse style apps are smaller. It’s just not a very large space.

            • Blaze@reddthat.comEnglish
              2·
              3 months ago

              I guess Reddit and similar link aggregators are just much smaller than we all think they are.

              • SorteKanin@feddit.dkEnglish
                1·
                3 months ago

                Even reddit is still niche when it comes to social media and has always been. It’s become a little more mainstream the last few years, but for most people social media still equals Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat and such.