@ericjmorey
@programming.devI guess it couldn't hurt to share the matrix rooms in a dedicated post.
I don't have any other recommendations right now.
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.
There's an entire instance that implimented your proposal that was quickly blocked by the largest instances. They were considered spam. It resulted in the opposite of growing community engagement.
You're talking about adding uncurated noise to the mix. I have a lot of RSS feeds that I browse through, but most of the posts I won't share because they are just noise.
After you read The Rust Programming Language book, read The Rustonomicon book, then What every programmer should know about memory by Ulrich Drepper, then this Stack Overflow comment about what has changed since 2007.
You won't need to read all of this to be productive, but the more you read the better your understanding will be which should make you more productive.
Building a house (or any construction project) is notoriously impossible to be on schedule and on budget too.