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.
Good thread I found so many good communities.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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.
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.
You just need a mod team willing to enforce those rules.
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!
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
This is specific to open source, but perhaps a good starting point: https://opensourcely.org/
Good post. I have 3 new subs now thanks to the comments :D
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.
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
Might scope out the forums and comments sections at Ars Technica. There’s a wealth of information from a ton of the regulars.
I’m working on finding a focus for !technology@sh.itjust.works
Edit: open to suggestions
Warning: those mods are trigger happy and abuse their rights (eg by banning content from Foss projects)
You’re replying to the only mod of that community, and I don’t see actions like that in the mod log.
Yep. Sometimes I think people forget that the modlog is public here.
Show me the “banning content from Foss projects”, @jagged_circle@feddit.nl :
https://sh.itjust.works/modlog?page=1&actionType=ModRemovePost&userId=28624
https://sh.itjust.works/modlog?page=1&actionType=ModRemoveComment&userId=28624
Are we sure about that? Kinda just looks like it’s a mostly-empty community. (4 posts in the last 15 days, then nothing until 9 months ago)
Also, this comment is getting copypasta’d onto multiple different unrelated suggestions.
It was pasted exactly two times in the two communities where this is an issue.
Yes. I’m sure.
You’ll probably enjoy Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/
No.
