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Re: Where do you discuss computer related stuff now?

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Post by wanda »

crooked-v wrote: post #12

SomethingAwful is remarkably good, at least as long you stay out of the designated shitpost zones. The combination of monetary buy-in and legacy community does a lot.

I'll second that. Though I have rarely logged into it the last ten years, I used to be more active on SA before that.

Lots of people have complained about moderation there but I think it's just a case of avoid the designated spam areas, and don't post nothing.

The latter part is how the HN community tends to self-curate comments anyway.

Re: Where do you discuss computer related stuff now?

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Post by adamredwoods »

_hypx wrote: post #15
tptacek wrote: post #11

Mastodon has been pretty great for this stuff for me. Get Ivory and it's basically identical to Twitter.

Mastodon plus the rest of the Fediverse is a good idea. See a big list of servers here: https://fedidb.org/network

It's a good idea, but it's not clear how to navigate it. Centralized social media is easier to participate and browse.

Re: Where do you discuss computer related stuff now?

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Post by code_duck »

NoPicklez wrote: post #5

For me the mainspace for discussing computer related stuff is still Reddit. /r/pcmasterrace still has 8 million members and /r/buildapc has 6 million. The viewer counts for these subreddits have only increased even in recent months. HN still has excellent discussions whether its Ask HN or links Was there a problem that begged asking the question in the first place?

Yes, the rationale is briefly described in the exposition to the question. Following recent events such as sudden API price hikes resulting in discontinuation of most 3rd party reddit clients and clumsy communication from the admins, discontent with reddit has been higher than usual recently. It has resulted in reddit alternatives such as Lemmy growing exponentially in the past 1-2 months.

Re: Where do you discuss computer related stuff now?

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Post by lmm »

elliotec wrote: post #10
anonzzzies wrote: post #7

It needs a relatively small community with a strong moderator who will warn people once. Not much of they around as it’s a painful job. I would like just an old fashioned, strict (no endless bickering over politics and wars, just hard tech and show offs what you have been hacking this weekend) forum with most people from r/programminglanguages and some of Hn. That’s enough to keep me entertained anyway. I very much d…

What part of this is different from HN as it is?

Too many HN comments nowadays are a) dumb jokes b) disinformation that it would take too much effort to correct kindly. In the old days those comments were corrected harshly and that kept the community quality high (both because it kept the discussion more accurate at first order, and because it drove away users who couldn't take their lumps). Nowadays they are not corrected at all.

Re: Where do you discuss computer related stuff now?

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Post by ggm »

OldGuyInTheClub wrote: post #23

I have a few trusted people I can email. If there is something outside their expertise, they will forward my message to others they trust. In exchange I try not to waste their time and never contact their associates separately.

This. but slack. Morally the same space. People who understand my neologisms or malapropisms and know how to say "no, that's not an outer left join" nicely without "RTFM" getting too harsh

Re: Where do you discuss computer related stuff now?

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Post by _hypx »

adamredwoods wrote: post #22
_hypx wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Mastodon plus the rest of the Fediverse is a good idea. See a big list of servers here: https://fedidb.org/network

It's a good idea, but it's not clear how to navigate it. Centralized social media is easier to participate and browse.

Centralized social media is the reason why we're in the mess we're in right now. Eventually, someone will come up with an effective way to navigate decentralized social media. It will likely mirror what Google did for Web 1.0.

Re: Where do you discuss computer related stuff now?

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Post by gumby »

tptacek wrote: post #11

Mastodon has been pretty great for this stuff for me. Get Ivory and it's basically identical to Twitter.

Is there a way to get ivory to treat threads the way twitter does? Right now if someone postsm say, a five post thread I see #5, then #4 ... #1 all as top level posts. Very offputting.

Re: Where do you discuss computer related stuff now?

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Post by presbyterian »

adamredwoods wrote: post #22
_hypx wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Mastodon plus the rest of the Fediverse is a good idea. See a big list of servers here: https://fedidb.org/network

It's a good idea, but it's not clear how to navigate it. Centralized social media is easier to participate and browse.

I agree, and I used to hold that against the fediverse, but now I kinda consider it a feature and not a bug. It's not hard to use, it's just a learning curve. Once you've learned it, it's very straightforward. So far in my experience, this has lead to an overall higher quality in posting and a general decrease in spam, because the people there are those who were willing to put in the effort of learning it.
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