Yup, I left facebook a couple of years ago and it was hard at the time. Now I’m reminding myself that I don’t miss facebook now that time has passed, so I probably won’t miss reddit either.

I really hope that this results in alternatives becoming more popular and robust. My partner and I discuss regularly how much we hate that so much of the internet has just been replaced with reddit. I am liking lemmy so far but I really hope for a revival of separate message boards on various websites again. I loved message boards. I’ve been looking for message boards again and I am having a reeeeal hard time finding any good ones. All the ones I’ve found so far that are active seem to have a big alt-right membership.

I see this is a pretty old post, but I thought I’d leave a comment that Oppia (https://www.oppia.org/) is trying to do this. Maybe you’ve found it by now! I don’t know a ton about them, but I did go to a code jam and presentation they put on at Grace Hopper a few years ago. Seemed like a great project.

How hard is it to get spun up on rust? I have been a dev for the better part of a decade but pretty much exclusively in java and python (and a wee bit of dartlang - yuck), primarily on the backend of a SaaS product. I’ve never contributed to open source before.