I’m just not interested in hearing what bullshit FAANG is up to, I want to talk about linux kernel patches and raspberry pi revisions and maybe hear what people other than grifters are doing with neural networks.
IMHO, this community should be about technology. Novel inventions. Interesting or creative applications. Discoveries. Dangers, advances, impacts, experiments, tutorials, etc.
Instead, it’s overrun with stock market and business news having no more to do with technology than CEOs of wood pulp factories have to do with literature.
I wish Rule 2 was phrased in a way that clearly excludes the latter, and enforced.
Beautifully phrased. Make science about science again, not about flash in the pan personalities.
Every tech community devolves into Musk/Microsoft/Linux drama pretty quickly. It’s pathetic.
That’s because tech peaked a while back. Tech news is basically about the next hustle to keep the funding coming in while producing nothing truly useful.
Technically absolutely did not peak a while back.
Journalism online is just full of a lot of dumb bullshit.Yes, what we have here in this thread is a reaction to the collapse of tech news.
It’s still exponentially growing in all fields with tens of millions of brilliant technical and scientific people. It’s just that the reporting of it has collapsed due to … gasp… technology advancement which upset the economic model which supported reporting and well written articles.
That, and the fact things are advancing so fast nobody a clue what is going on outside their specific interests
“Elon Musk said that he eats babies” is not tech news regardless of whether tech peaked or not.
Technology did not peak. “News” peaked. We are definitely on a downhill slope for news.
Actual Journalism is much more rare than it needs to be.
Tech is still producing lots of useful stuff. AI for example can actually be very useful. It’s just not as generalist as the marketers would have us believe. For specific targeted tasks, it can be amazing.
Yeah, there’s rarely new tech most people care about, just consumer product updates.
I work almost exclusively with early stage companies with major innovation and patents. APIs, InfoSec, etc aren’t sexy enough to make these communities.
They’re sexy to me…
Only if moderators don’t moderate. I don’t know what it is about tech communities, but it always seems to happen with these more than others.
I’ve wanted something like that as well. I’m currently playing around with BlueSky feeds to get streams of science and technology content. Lemmy’s technology communities are often tech drama and or Linux stuff, and miss out on other things that are happening in the industry.
If you put it into a starter pack, let me know.
Ah please could you post some recommendations on who to follow on Bluesky?
You’ll probably enjoy Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/
I concur. It’s like HN but with less AI/VC BS.
Little too programming focused though, not much tech news
Is it still invite only? I’ve been curious. I have Tildes.
Edit: I should probably just lurk. I don’t comment on tildes anyway. Don’t feel my comment style is up to the standard lol.
A blog post I wrote got shared there a while back, but I did not ask for an invite back then. 2 years later, and I don’t feel legitimate to ask for an invite anymore
Do you know if they have any plan to stop requiring invites? I’ve been interested for many years, but the invite system rubs me the wrong way.
I don’t think so. It’s probably what keeps it small and more personal. There is also the notion of responsibility: if a person I invite causes trouble, it’s potentially on me. Maybe not on the first infraction, but if one invites 20 spammers/cryptobros/venturecapitalists, it’s reasonable to block the inviter too.
I’m not arguing one way or another (that’s not my decision anyway), but I can understand why they do this.
There’s a mastodon bot… but it’s one-way of course.
Check out 404 media! I’m a big supporter of independent media, but there’s been a real lack of high quality, competent tech journalism for the last few years.
They launched in the last few months and I’ve been pretty impressed with their coverage so far.
Even their coverage though could be called at the intersection of current events <> technology. When I want pure tech news, I usually watch YouTube channels that specialize in related topics ( like Asionometry for silicon design or Dave2d for device reviews).
Thanks for explaining them! I’ve seen links there without knowing about it
Same here. I’ve just gone through their feed and I recognize a good portion of the headlines.
Good post. I have 3 new subs now thanks to the comments :D
I use this community for that: !tech@programming.dev
The rules seem to be aligned with what you’re looking for.
Plus other communities on that instance depending on what you’re interested in.
Then there are feeds like !hackernews@lemmit.online to keep up with content on other sites. There are lots of RSS feed communities through the https://rss.ponder.cat/communities instance
Literally the 2nd post on !tech@programming.dev is about mega corporations financials. Many other posts are about legal cases of megacorporations.
It seems to be less about technology, and more about the market and software drama/politics.
At least no musk spam.
It’s not supposed to be since the rules say
Things that don’t fit
- Minor app updates
- Government legislation
- Company news
- Opinion pieces
I’ll report the post and see what the mods do, likely they didn’t see it yet
This seems like an area where there’s demand for a carefully moderated community, even if there is less content over all. That might help with the state of tech news that other comments are mentioning
Hacker news is empty for me…?
I linked the wrong community earlier and then changed it
If the lemmit one also looks empty, it could be because you are the first person in your instance to come across the community. If you subscribe, it should start pulling the contents so you can see it.
It doesn’t look like lemm.ee blocked it so hopefully the stuff above is the cause
Warning: those mods are trigger happy and abuse their rights (eg by banning content from Foss projects)
There is only one mod of each of those communities. !tech@programming.dev has not removed any content like that from what I can see, and !hackernews@lemmit.online has no removed posts at all.
Check out hackaday maybe? It’s primarily hobbyist stuff, but they’ve been peppering in some original pieces about tech innovations and trends.
At the very least, nobody is trying to sell you anything.
Dunno about communities, but https://www.science.org/ and https://www.sciencenews.org/ are all about science
Would be nice to have more communities that just autopublish all articles published by specific sites
I like phoronix.com but don’t bother reading the article comments.
Or sometimes do read the comments as a reminder on why you shouldn’t.
That’s what I do with local news articles, I try to read the comments every few months just to remind myself who my neighbors are…
You just need a mod team willing to enforce those rules.
Phys.org or maybe nature? They’re mostly just seem to be reposts of journals or Nature articles, but they don’t usually have drama and can often be rather interesting. They aren’t necessarily about technology, just scientific advances which is a nice change from all of the enshitification news that almost any tech hub is blaring.
This is specific to open source, but perhaps a good starting point: https://opensourcely.org/
Probably Hackaday. https://lemmy.world/c/hackaday@rss.ponder.cat
Link - !hackaday@rss.ponder.cat
Fuck knows why Lemmy doesn’t link to both the same way, seems daft
If you don’t want drama, then Torvalds’ work might not be the best project to follow
Linux drama good drama IMO
I do enjoy some crusty C developers arguing with rusty not-C developers every once in a while.
bcachefs 👌
There are exceptions to every rule LMAO
