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Re: Lobsters

#91

Post by fifteen1506 »

andy99 wrote: post #17
Xiol32 wrote: post #5

Would be less of a ghost town if they allowed sign ups rather than via invitation only. Appreciate that's kinda the point of the site, but if it's a ghost town then it's clearly petered out.

They discuss under "invitation tree" how it's possible to get an invite if you want one. https://lobste.rs/about I don't have an account although a couple things I wrote got posted there, if I'd realized it at the time that apparently qualifies me. Overall I don't know if the quality is better than HN, even if the SNR is higher, there is just so much less total that the sum of good stuff is lower. It's almost complet…

A good samaritan on the other Blue site gave me one but I haven't had good comments to make since.

Re: Lobsters

#92

Post by xoranth »

eatonphil wrote: post #21

Good posts on software more reliably get to the top of lobste.rs than on HN in my experience. Whereas on HN you're competing with a wide variety of topics. Lobste.rs is pretty focused on just hardware/software hacking. I don't mean that negatively. I'm glad we talk about varied topics on HN. But it's also nice to have a place that almost only talks about software/hardware. Sometimes I've thought about starting a "sof…

It's not (just) the variety of topics, it is that HN has way more users (and therefore way more submissions).

A submission on lobste.rs will stay on top of recent/newest for days, on HN it might be minutes.

Re: Lobsters

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Post by gaws »

Xiol32 wrote: post #5

Would be less of a ghost town if they allowed sign ups rather than via invitation only. Appreciate that's kinda the point of the site, but if it's a ghost town then it's clearly petered out.

> rather than via invitation only.

This is a good thing.

Re: Lobsters

#94

Post by losvedir »

I like lobsters. One of my main use cases is on my phone in the middle of the night (while rocking my newborn), since it actually has a legit dark mode, unlike HN, which blinds me and lights up the room. I don't understand how HN doesn't...

Re: Lobsters

#95

Post by tonoto »

How come that this is the first time (might have visited that site several years ago, recognize the CSS in some way) that I hear about lobster.rs? Is the site entirely by invitation or are there at least a couple yearly signup openings?

Re: Lobsters

#96

Post by andy99 »

mooreds wrote: post #75
andy99 wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Weird because primarily submitting one's own stuff seems to be pretty common there. Random example from a user currently on the front page: https://lobste.rs/~rednafi/stories And that is not the only one on the front page right now that's submitting mostly their own stuff.

I stopped posting three years ago, maybe the culture has changed?

Personally I don't see a problem with someone posting their own content, especially with voting based ranking. As long as it's not spam and is on-topic for the site, the origin shouldn't really matter. Compared with someone who posts only New York Times articles, I'd rather see someone post their blog entries.

Re: Lobsters

#98

Post by whalesalad »

rglullis wrote: post #38

Aside from the argument for/against lobste.rs, is there anything in the codebase that is worthwhile? Any feature/functionality that could be implemented in Lemmy, for example?

It's a decent example to follow for a run of the mill rails app.

Re: Lobsters

#99

Post by doe88 »

Great site, especially for PL and security links, I read it for a while now but never had the chance to know someone with an account/invite.
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