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.
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.
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
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.
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
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
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.
This is specific to open source, but perhaps a good starting point: https://opensourcely.org/
You just need a mod team willing to enforce those rules.
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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.
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!
maybe slashdot.org but it’s not a community per see
Hacker news still going strong, you get the drama stories here and there but the focus is on the technology
