Honestly, reddit. There is loads of garbage but some subreddits are just gold, like the data engineering subreddit.
could you and some others list some of the subreddits worth visiting?
Ask HN: Where do you browse and chat outside of here?
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Re: Ask HN: Where do you browse and chat outside of here?
#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are you looking for sharp wit or to learn things? Has a huge influence on which subreddits to recommend.
Which subs would you recommend for sharp wit?
Sharp wit: r/redscarepod, and it's spinoff subreddits (e.g. /r/rs_x) are quite snarky and ironic. r/TimAndEric. r/DecodingTheGurus.
Intelligent content: r/slatestarcodex, r/EzraKlein, r/ReproducibilityCrisis, r/wikipedia, programming language subreddits, occasionally r/interestingasfuck.
Re: Ask HN: Where do you browse and chat outside of here?
#73Many discord servers, each focusing on different interests. The communities are small enough that you can have actual conversations without a lot of noise. I just wish these communities were on a less centralized and less closed platform. Reddit used to be great, but these days, it's mostly rage bait and state actors astroturfing all of the popular subreddits.
lotta astroturfing here too, mon ami.
great money to be made getting the HN tech bro demographic on to something.
Re: Ask HN: Where do you browse and chat outside of here?
#74Mastodon and RSS feeds. I’m also trying to write more long form stuff, and that definitely helps keeping conversations going. I check out Lemmy maybe once or twice a month.
lemmy is pretty sparse outside of tech-ish instances. hard to get excited about it sometimes.
double edged sword of platform adoption -- no one is there so you dont go, but if you don't go no one is there.
Re: Ask HN: Where do you browse and chat outside of here?
#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't know; reddit still has long-term, threaded discussions without character limit and a forum-like interface if you are using ~sane reddit~ sorry, I mean "old reddit". That is quite different from facebook, niche groups or not.
My theory is that they keep old.reddit.com around to generate training data for the AI companies.
the day that old.reddit stops working is the day I never use the platform again
Re: Ask HN: Where do you browse and chat outside of here?
#76My favourite is a private local slack group. It is a group of mainly software devs who chatted on public groups and dealt with a couple of trolling / bad behaviour situations, so we made a private invite only slack. It's really nice, it's super active compared to even much larger interest based chat groups I'm in. It's a safe place, it has about 60 members, I've met a lot of people in it in person. There are some oth…
Are you ever worried that someone in the group will get mad and start leaking conversations?
Sure but you might get worried that any friend would do the same if you communicate in a way that can be recorded.
Re: Ask HN: Where do you browse and chat outside of here?
#77In order of precedence.
0. Meatspace.
1. IRC, mostly on rizon and a bit on libera.
2. Imageboards that don't require accounts.
3. General web, via some shell scripts I've written that give me pseudorandom content from various aggregators.
4. HN
5. Discord, but it I try to avoid as much as possible for ideological reasons.
6. Public unix system micro-blogs/gopher-holes.