I’m just not interested in hearing what bullshit FAANG is up to, I want to talk about linux kernel patches and raspberry pi revisions and maybe hear what people other than grifters are doing with neural networks.
IMHO, this community should be about technology. Novel inventions. Interesting or creative applications. Discoveries. Dangers, advances, impacts, experiments, tutorials, etc.
Instead, it’s overrun with stock market and business news having no more to do with technology than CEOs of wood pulp factories have to do with literature.
I wish Rule 2 was phrased in a way that clearly excludes the latter, and enforced.
Good post. I have 3 new subs now thanks to the comments :D
Check out 404 media! I’m a big supporter of independent media, but there’s been a real lack of high quality, competent tech journalism for the last few years.
They launched in the last few months and I’ve been pretty impressed with their coverage so far.
Even their coverage though could be called at the intersection of current events <> technology. When I want pure tech news, I usually watch YouTube channels that specialize in related topics ( like Asionometry for silicon design or Dave2d for device reviews).
Thanks for explaining them! I’ve seen links there without knowing about it
Every tech community devolves into Musk/Microsoft/Linux drama pretty quickly. It’s pathetic.
Only if moderators don’t moderate. I don’t know what it is about tech communities, but it always seems to happen with these more than others.
That’s because tech peaked a while back. Tech news is basically about the next hustle to keep the funding coming in while producing nothing truly useful.
“Elon Musk said that he eats babies” is not tech news regardless of whether tech peaked or not.
Technically absolutely did not peak a while back.
Journalism online is just full of a lot of dumb bullshit.Tech is still producing lots of useful stuff. AI for example can actually be very useful. It’s just not as generalist as the marketers would have us believe. For specific targeted tasks, it can be amazing.
I’ve wanted something like that as well. I’m currently playing around with BlueSky feeds to get streams of science and technology content. Lemmy’s technology communities are often tech drama and or Linux stuff, and miss out on other things that are happening in the industry.
If you put it into a starter pack, let me know.
You’ll probably enjoy Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/
Do you know if they have any plan to stop requiring invites? I’ve been interested for many years, but the invite system rubs me the wrong way.
I concur. It’s like HN but with less AI/VC BS.
Little too programming focused though, not much tech news
Is it still invite only? I’ve been curious. I have Tildes.
Edit: I should probably just lurk. I don’t comment on tildes anyway. Don’t feel my comment style is up to the standard lol.
I use this community for that: !tech@programming.dev
The rules seem to be aligned with what you’re looking for.
Plus other communities on that instance depending on what you’re interested in.
Then there are feeds like !hackernews@lemmit.online to keep up with content on other sites. There are lots of RSS feed communities through the https://rss.ponder.cat/communities instance
I like phoronix.com but don’t bother reading the article comments.
Or sometimes do read the comments as a reminder on why you shouldn’t.
Check out hackaday maybe? It’s primarily hobbyist stuff, but they’ve been peppering in some original pieces about tech innovations and trends.
At the very least, nobody is trying to sell you anything.
LWN is good for Linux kernel related content.
Phys.org or maybe nature? They’re mostly just seem to be reposts of journals or Nature articles, but they don’t usually have drama and can often be rather interesting. They aren’t necessarily about technology, just scientific advances which is a nice change from all of the enshitification news that almost any tech hub is blaring.
If you don’t want drama, then Torvalds’ work might not be the best project to follow
Linux drama good drama IMO
bcachefs 👌
I do enjoy some crusty C developers arguing with rusty not-C developers every once in a while.
There are exceptions to every rule LMAO
Probably Hackaday. https://lemmy.world/c/hackaday@rss.ponder.cat
Link - !hackaday@rss.ponder.cat
Fuck knows why Lemmy doesn’t link to both the same way, seems daft
Might scope out the forums and comments sections at Ars Technica. There’s a wealth of information from a ton of the regulars.
Hacker news still going strong, you get the drama stories here and there but the focus is on the technology
