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tildes.net is similar in that it’s good but it does have politics
Sadly its invite only and I know nobody with an invite. If anyone fancies throwing one my way it'd be appreciated.
You (and anyone else) are welcome to email me for an invite. It's not intended to be difficult to get one, I just want to keep it under control and avoid any giant floods of users/bots.
Please read the announcement post for some general info about the site's goals, and the info for requesting an invite is in there: https://blog.tildes.net/announcing-tildes
'The Well' - https://www.well.com/ 'Hackaday' - https://hackaday.com/ 'Slashdot' - https://slashdot.org/ 'Stackoverflow' - https://stackoverflow.com/ Also, haven't used it for a while, but IRC is still going. #math on freenode is apparently still fairly good, according to a few people I know.
Is the well worth paying for? What's the community like?
edit - here's a link to 'The State of the World, 2019' - https://people.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/506/State-of... - it should give you a bit of an idea of the kind of community they have.
Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/ It's a slower-moving site with lots of CompSci and programmer-focused stuff. People also regularly share what projects they work on, what's going on in their life, or maybe what they're reading. Still has a small community feel despite over 10,000 views a day. Lobsters and Hacker News are my must reads each day. They're both great. :)
Mercilessly tightly curated email, mastodon, diaspora, and reddit.
But really: books. Mostly books.
Disclaimer: I'm one of the founders.
RSS. Mercilessly tightly curated email, mastodon, diaspora, and reddit. But really: books. Mostly books.
Over time, I’ve come to realize that this is fundamentally impossible without “mercilessly tight” moderation, and tools/services that give you that power (RSS, email), because the state of the world is 1 part signal to 99 parts noise.
Books, and by extension libraries, are a viscerally physical representation of this principle. Much of what’s in a library is noise, but the signals are sustained, dense, and often unlike anything you can find on the web. However, like the web, signal tends to cluster around certain authors and publishers. There’s still a moderation problem (picking the right book), but over time your verification algorithm (is this book signal or noise?) gets faster and “mercilessly tight”.
I don’t have much of a conclusion, but I’ll end with questions this raises for me. I wonder how this idea interacts with “echo chambers”? Aren’t we constructing personal ones with these tools and resources? Is that necessarily a bad thing?
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I always liked the look of lobste.rs but never knew anyone active there who could invite me (I've spent the last few years working at tiny startups and haven't spent nearly enough time networking with others outside my immediate circle).
what's your email?
Thank you by advance. Regards.
Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/ It's a slower-moving site with lots of CompSci and programmer-focused stuff. People also regularly share what projects they work on, what's going on in their life, or maybe what they're reading. Still has a small community feel despite over 10,000 views a day. Lobsters and Hacker News are my must reads each day. They're both great. :)