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I wish I had a lobste.rs membership now.

by diego_moita 3y ago

earthscienceman 3y ago
I could help you there if you'd like.
- zxexz 3y ago
  Lobste.rs always seemed cool. I've been waiting for them to open up for years. But I guess the invite-only nature may be what makes it what it is?
  - rkeene2 3y ago
    I was a Lobste.rs user for a while, but their admins are very patronizing so I left. One day in 2020, I made several posts (see below) on a variety of topics and because they were all articles or software I had written they couldn't decide if I should be banned, so I left. Writing Your First PAM Module [c] [unix] (rkeene) - https://lobste.rs/s/qbsk6y https://lobste.rs/s/qbsk6y hunter2: Smartcard-based password manager [security] [show] (rkeene) - https://lobste.rs/s/3rufnm https://lobste.rs/s/3rufnm Build CC: Cross-compile build tool [programming] (rkeene) - https://lobste.rs/s/2g4hfh https://lobste.rs/s/2g4hfh Simple SAML Identity Provider Framework (IdP) [programming] [security] (rkeene) - https://lobste.rs/s/nrle0e https://lobste.rs/s/nrle0e Roku Reddit [programming] [show] (rkeene) - https://lobste.rs/s/nbxufp https://lobste.rs/s/nbxufp Chrome disables support for mandatory features of HTTPS [rant] [web] (rkeene) - https://lobste.rs/s/shqzk5 https://lobste.rs/s/shqzk5 HashCache [programming] [show] (rkeene) - https://lobste.rs/s/hq2ckd https://lobste.rs/s/hq2ckd sse3-emu [c] [show] (rkeene) - https://lobste.rs/s/xekrci https://lobste.rs/s/xekrci Defense Enterprise Linux (2011) [linux] [pdf] (rkeene) - https://lobste.rs/s/x5wgwr https://lobste.rs/s/x5wgwr pipethread: It is what it does [pdf] [programming] (rkeene) - https://lobste.rs/s/yu5lfw https://lobste.rs/s/yu5lfw
- SCUSKU 3y ago
  I'd be interested. What do I need to do?
- oa335 3y ago
  I've been looking for a lobste.rs invite for some time to, how can I get an invite?
- diego_moita 3y ago
  Can you send me one?
- StrictDabbler 3y ago
  14 years on reddit as a user, 16 years reading it... Lobste.rs looks exactly like Reddit did in 2006 or so. I'd love to be back in a space like that.
- peoplearepeople 3y ago
  I'd like one please
- INGSOCIALITE 3y ago
  I’ve been trying to get one forever, can you help?
PestoDiRucola 3y ago
It's not that hard to get one.
- super256 3y ago
  It is probably easy if you know people there. Unfortunately I don’t and neither my German friends (already asked on German IRC etc). It’s hard to find a way into that community if don’t already know English speaking people who are in this niche. In case anyone has an invite to give, I’d be happy to use it: hn@<nickname>.dev :)
  - deleted 3y ago
    [deleted]
  - super256 3y ago
    Got an invite, many thanks for this!
ipaddr 3y ago
Why, it's closed to new members so no one comments. It's not a place to replace reddit. You are better off going to slashdot.. similiar level of conversation as reddit and many more comments and similiar number of daily stories compared to lobste.rs
- StrictDabbler 3y ago
  Suggesting that slashdot has a similar level of conversation to Reddit is deeply depressing regardless of how accurate it might be. My slashdot ID is six digits. I check in about thrice a year and leave sad. For me it's like going to a podcast festival. Everybody's a bearded white 40 year old man. They're mostly saying things that make sense but there's an uneasy sense that I've walked into an echo-chamber.
- OkayPhysicist 3y ago
  Frankly, I think relatively insular communities are better for the web as a whole. In particular "anybody can invite people, but you're responsible for your invite tree" is a pretty healthy way to foster a community. It ensures a basic level of decency, and a high level of trust. IMO, the option to deal with invite trees like the other site should be an option everywhere. Some basic moderation tools, like being able to view and ban an entire invite sub-tree should be available for things like Discord servers.
  - noirbot 3y ago
    The issue with insular communities is they're insular though, and often by definition exclusionary. The nice part about something like reddit was if I picked up a new hobby, I could reliably find a community for it there. If I take up kayaking, it's unlikely that the insular music BBS I'm on has more than a handful of kayaking enthusiasts on it, and for just a general hobby, I'm not even sure where I'd start on trying to find an insular community for that hobby. There's many interests I've ended up getting more involved in because I could easily join a subreddit that was about that without much effort, and then over the years, by osmosis, I learned and saw more of it while I was engaging with the other subreddits I was more active on. Smaller communities just don't offer that sort of convenient diversity of interests and experiences.
roncesvalles 3y ago
The problem with lobste.rs is that I'm not sure that the people whose opinions I want to read give a shit about jumping the hoops to get a membership, you know what I mean? All the people on it are people who cared enough to be on it.

I wish I had a lobste.rs membership now.

earthscienceman 3y ago

I could help you there if you'd like.

zxexz 3y ago
Lobste.rs always seemed cool. I've been waiting for them to open up for years. But I guess the invite-only nature may be what makes it what it is?
- rkeene2 3y ago
  I was a Lobste.rs user for a while, but their admins are very patronizing so I left. One day in 2020, I made several posts (see below) on a variety of topics and because they were all articles or software I had written they couldn't decide if I should be banned, so I left. Writing Your First PAM Module [c] [unix] (rkeene) - https://lobste.rs/s/qbsk6y https://lobste.rs/s/qbsk6y hunter2: Smartcard-based password manager [security] [show] (rkeene) - https://lobste.rs/s/3rufnm https://lobste.rs/s/3rufnm Build CC: Cross-compile build tool [programming] (rkeene) - https://lobste.rs/s/2g4hfh https://lobste.rs/s/2g4hfh Simple SAML Identity Provider Framework (IdP) [programming] [security] (rkeene) - https://lobste.rs/s/nrle0e https://lobste.rs/s/nrle0e Roku Reddit [programming] [show] (rkeene) - https://lobste.rs/s/nbxufp https://lobste.rs/s/nbxufp Chrome disables support for mandatory features of HTTPS [rant] [web] (rkeene) - https://lobste.rs/s/shqzk5 https://lobste.rs/s/shqzk5 HashCache [programming] [show] (rkeene) - https://lobste.rs/s/hq2ckd https://lobste.rs/s/hq2ckd sse3-emu [c] [show] (rkeene) - https://lobste.rs/s/xekrci https://lobste.rs/s/xekrci Defense Enterprise Linux (2011) [linux] [pdf] (rkeene) - https://lobste.rs/s/x5wgwr https://lobste.rs/s/x5wgwr pipethread: It is what it does [pdf] [programming] (rkeene) - https://lobste.rs/s/yu5lfw https://lobste.rs/s/yu5lfw
SCUSKU 3y ago
I'd be interested. What do I need to do?
oa335 3y ago
I've been looking for a lobste.rs invite for some time to, how can I get an invite?
diego_moita 3y ago
Can you send me one?
StrictDabbler 3y ago
14 years on reddit as a user, 16 years reading it... Lobste.rs looks exactly like Reddit did in 2006 or so. I'd love to be back in a space like that.
peoplearepeople 3y ago
I'd like one please
INGSOCIALITE 3y ago
I’ve been trying to get one forever, can you help?

PestoDiRucola 3y ago

It's not that hard to get one.

super256 3y ago
It is probably easy if you know people there. Unfortunately I don’t and neither my German friends (already asked on German IRC etc). It’s hard to find a way into that community if don’t already know English speaking people who are in this niche. In case anyone has an invite to give, I’d be happy to use it: hn@<nickname>.dev :)
- deleted 3y ago
  [deleted]
- super256 3y ago
  Got an invite, many thanks for this!

ipaddr 3y ago

Why, it's closed to new members so no one comments. It's not a place to replace reddit. You are better off going to slashdot.. similiar level of conversation as reddit and many more comments and similiar number of daily stories compared to lobste.rs

StrictDabbler 3y ago
Suggesting that slashdot has a similar level of conversation to Reddit is deeply depressing regardless of how accurate it might be. My slashdot ID is six digits. I check in about thrice a year and leave sad. For me it's like going to a podcast festival. Everybody's a bearded white 40 year old man. They're mostly saying things that make sense but there's an uneasy sense that I've walked into an echo-chamber.
OkayPhysicist 3y ago
Frankly, I think relatively insular communities are better for the web as a whole. In particular "anybody can invite people, but you're responsible for your invite tree" is a pretty healthy way to foster a community. It ensures a basic level of decency, and a high level of trust. IMO, the option to deal with invite trees like the other site should be an option everywhere. Some basic moderation tools, like being able to view and ban an entire invite sub-tree should be available for things like Discord servers.
- noirbot 3y ago
  The issue with insular communities is they're insular though, and often by definition exclusionary. The nice part about something like reddit was if I picked up a new hobby, I could reliably find a community for it there. If I take up kayaking, it's unlikely that the insular music BBS I'm on has more than a handful of kayaking enthusiasts on it, and for just a general hobby, I'm not even sure where I'd start on trying to find an insular community for that hobby. There's many interests I've ended up getting more involved in because I could easily join a subreddit that was about that without much effort, and then over the years, by osmosis, I learned and saw more of it while I was engaging with the other subreddits I was more active on. Smaller communities just don't offer that sort of convenient diversity of interests and experiences.

roncesvalles 3y ago

The problem with lobste.rs is that I'm not sure that the people whose opinions I want to read give a shit about jumping the hoops to get a membership, you know what I mean? All the people on it are people who cared enough to be on it.