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.

  • mox@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    124·
    1 month ago

    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.

  • TachyonTele@lemm.eeEnglish
    1217·
    1 month ago

    Every tech community devolves into Musk/Microsoft/Linux drama pretty quickly. It’s pathetic.

    • WaxiestSteam69@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6223·
      1 month ago

      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.

      • TachyonTele@lemm.eeEnglish
        454·
        1 month ago

        Technically absolutely did not peak a while back.
        Journalism online is just full of a lot of dumb bullshit.

        • actually@lemmy.worldEnglish
          8·
          1 month ago

          Yes, what we have here in this thread is a reaction to the collapse of tech news.

          It’s still exponentially growing in all fields with tens of millions of brilliant technical and scientific people. It’s just that the reporting of it has collapsed due to … gasp… technology advancement which upset the economic model which supported reporting and well written articles.

          That, and the fact things are advancing so fast nobody a clue what is going on outside their specific interests

      • babybus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        27·
        1 month ago

        “Elon Musk said that he eats babies” is not tech news regardless of whether tech peaked or not.

      • mPony@lemmy.worldEnglish
        172·
        1 month ago

        Technology did not peak. “News” peaked. We are definitely on a downhill slope for news.

        Actual Journalism is much more rare than it needs to be.

      • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        103·
        1 month ago

        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.

      • blazeknave@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        1 month ago

        Yeah, there’s rarely new tech most people care about, just consumer product updates.

        I work almost exclusively with early stage companies with major innovation and patents. APIs, InfoSec, etc aren’t sexy enough to make these communities.

    • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
      15·
      1 month ago

      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.

  • Jesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    772·
    1 month ago

    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.

    • can@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      6·
      1 month ago

      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.

    • pcouy@lemmy.pierre-couy.frEnglish
      3·
      1 month ago

      A blog post I wrote got shared there a while back, but I did not ask for an invite back then. 2 years later, and I don’t feel legitimate to ask for an invite anymore

    • redshift@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3·
      1 month ago

      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.

      • TheEntity@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 month ago

        I don’t think so. It’s probably what keeps it small and more personal. There is also the notion of responsibility: if a person I invite causes trouble, it’s potentially on me. Maybe not on the first infraction, but if one invites 20 spammers/cryptobros/venturecapitalists, it’s reasonable to block the inviter too.

        I’m not arguing one way or another (that’s not my decision anyway), but I can understand why they do this.

  • vulture_god@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    32·
    1 month ago

    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).

  • OtterAEnglish
    311·
    1 month ago

    I use this community for that: [email protected]

    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 [email protected] to keep up with content on other sites. There are lots of RSS feed communities through the https://rss.ponder.cat/communities instance

    • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nlEnglish
      3·
      1 month ago

      Literally the 2nd post on [email protected] is about mega corporations financials. Many other posts are about legal cases of megacorporations.

      It seems to be less about technology, and more about the market and software drama/politics.

      At least no musk spam.

      • OtterAEnglish
        2·
        1 month ago

        It’s not supposed to be since the rules say

        Things that don’t fit

        • Minor app updates
        • Government legislation
        • Company news
        • Opinion pieces

        I’ll report the post and see what the mods do, likely they didn’t see it yet

        This seems like an area where there’s demand for a carefully moderated community, even if there is less content over all. That might help with the state of tech news that other comments are mentioning

      • OtterAEnglish
        1·
        1 month ago

        I linked the wrong community earlier and then changed it

        If the lemmit one also looks empty, it could be because you are the first person in your instance to come across the community. If you subscribe, it should start pulling the contents so you can see it.

        It doesn’t look like lemm.ee blocked it so hopefully the stuff above is the cause

    • jagged_circle@feddit.nlEnglish
      11·
      1 month ago

      Warning: those mods are trigger happy and abuse their rights (eg by banning content from Foss projects)

  • ch00f@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    1 month ago

    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.

    • jagged_circle@feddit.nlEnglish
      4·
      1 month ago

      Would be nice to have more communities that just autopublish all articles published by specific sites

  • Addv4@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    1 month ago

    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.