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Re: Where do you discuss computer related stuff now?

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Post by intended »

_hypx wrote: post #28
adamredwoods wrote: post #22

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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.

All federated systems will be centralized.

Once you get a way to navigate federated things, the navigation becomes the core of the experience.

The crux of the internet experience is that Quantity is a quality in itself. Once the navigation window becomes core, and handles the highest volumes, it’s easier to streamline monetary rewards to a single place.

Federated communities that work better with whatever navigator/window/Tool is created do well, and will have more resources to expand and gain users.

Re: Where do you discuss computer related stuff now?

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Post by cpach »

xmprt wrote: post #35
presbyterian wrote: post #30

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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.

Are there any good guides to learning it?

This might be a useful starting point: https://jointhefediverse.net/learn

Re: Where do you discuss computer related stuff now?

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Post by smokel »

lmm wrote: post #40
anonzzzies wrote: post #32

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Yes, there are more reddit like comments now. Moderating is a really hard job when sites are very active.

I don't think it's an activity level issue. When dang took over he made an explicit shift to prioritizing kindness, with predictable results.

I don't think one can easily compare HN to other forums, so saying the results are predictable is a bit harsh.

I have been in many irc channels that were extremely harsh on cluebies, but all the flaming turned into a sport by itself, and drove away from the content. The same goes for usenet, many subreddits, and Twitter.

I think HN is doing amazingly well after such a long time. It would be guesswork to say how it would end up with a less kind moderator. I for one would have left, but perhaps I'm too kind.

It is annoying that people spread misinformation, but a quick scan of a user's comment history often gives a good indication of their credibility.

Re: Where do you discuss computer related stuff now?

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Post by Karrot_Kream »

lmm wrote: post #40
anonzzzies wrote: post #32

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Yes, there are more reddit like comments now. Moderating is a really hard job when sites are very active.

I don't think it's an activity level issue. When dang took over he made an explicit shift to prioritizing kindness, with predictable results.

dang has a different style than pg did but I really don't think that's the issue. The site is big now and has absorbed a lot of people fleeing Reddit and Twitter and they've brought that culture with them. dang's moderation has continuously been evenhanded and well applied. The site has changed despite his efforts, IMO.

Re: Where do you discuss computer related stuff now?

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Post by rkagerer »

vouaobrasil wrote: post #42

> So where do you go when you want to geek out? This may be a pessimistic take, but computer stuff I believe has lost the allure that it once had, and here is why I think so: At one point, computer stuff meant being a hacker, having the hacker ethic, which personally to me translated into figuring out how stuff worked and putting it together to do something useful. And, "something useful" to me meant creating somethi…

I view their failure to put users first as a giant opportunity for someone else to come along and do a better job.

Re: Where do you discuss computer related stuff now?

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Post by phs318u »

jrflowers wrote: post #45
deadalus wrote: post #34

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This is a good point. The original goal of federation was to make sure everybody has to read everyone else on the internet’s posts. It’s the same leftist trash thinking that led to the internet having several websites instead of one big one.

> The original goal of federation was to make sure everybody has to read everyone else on the internet’s posts

This could not be further from the truth. The goal of federation is to _allow_ everyone to read other's posts, NOT to force them to. You don't get to invite yourself and all your mates to my party. Your freedom ends where my nose begins. My freedom is in choosing who I associate with and who I don't.

Re: Where do you discuss computer related stuff now?

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Post by Karrot_Kream »

renewiltord wrote: post #33

Ironically, lobsters is great so long as you ignore every `culture` tag using the filters https://lobste.rs/filters I have the following filtered: - culture - rant - privacy I think those ones are usually full of people saying the same stuff over and over again.

Lobsters is too focused around PLs, systems coding, and FOSS politics for my tastes. The content in other computing niches is just too cursory to be interesting.

Re: Where do you discuss computer related stuff now?

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Post by xbmcuser »

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…

LTT forums I think is quite a good.

https://linustechtips.com/

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