This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
Might scope out the forums and comments sections at Ars Technica. There’s a wealth of information from a ton of the regulars.
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.
Good thread I found so many good communities.
LWN is good for Linux kernel related content.
Hacker News is probably your best bet as long as you don't go too deep in the comments
I'm working on finding a focus for !technology@sh.itjust.works
Edit: open to suggestions
Same question. I kinda hoped it would be here, but many lemmy communities are just reddit with a better UI. Lots of good links in this thread tho!
Hacker news still going strong, you get the drama stories here and there but the focus is on the technology
maybe slashdot.org but it's not a community per see
