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What other communities do you use apart from HN?
For example: apart from HN, I take part in Reddit and Bluesky. Facebook and Instagram ane inertia. Twitter/X is never more.
- tcfhgj 2y agoMastodon
- Simon_O_Rourke 2y agoNew England Revolution fans forum.
- hiAndrewQuinn 2y agoOnline communities? Primarily X and Github. Sometimes Reddit for my Finnish language learning resources. Offline? I'm mostly fine with my current friends and family.
- mglz 2y agoLemmy caught traction and feels like the old intrnet sometimes.
- denvermullets 2y agoi like lemmy. feels very small but not dead. it's nice
- noisy_boy 2y agoFor someone new to lemmy and a tech-interested HN user, which communities I should subscribe to?
- wruza 2y agoI filter by technology/english, click "explore" on a couple of servers and it greets me with: - Mel Gibson something Nazi - Epic CEO says Trump Trump - Tencent Chinese something military - Justice Trump 34 felonies - Republicans sound eager Not sure if I want to "explore" "technology" further.
- Dook_ 2y agoJust letting you know: - Lemmy is FEDERATED ( google about it ) - If you want to see only posts from LOCAL ( not local to your instance ) posts select "LOCAL" default is "ALL" ( Federated from all )
- wruza 2y agoThanks, I think it got better in at least one instance of those. But for some reason programming.dev is okay either way. Feels like posts don’t change if I switch between all/local. Why is that?
- denvermullets 2y agoi started lemmy with a programming instance, as it's a bit more focused on what i want to see. on android i use an app 'Sync for Lemmy' which makes it a little easier when i want to branch out into viewing all of lemmy. honestly, any platform these days is going to need a lot of filtering to cut out what you don't want to see https://programming.dev/ https://programming.dev/
- TomasEkeli 2y agoprogramming.dev has some good ones
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- RadiozRadioz 2y agoVery similar to HN: https://lobste.rs/ https://lobste.rs/
- tlarkworthy 2y agoCan someone give me an invite. I am in Europe and I don't know anyone who has an account to vouch for me
- ykonstant 2y agoIt's invite only? Huh, well that's that then.
- wirelesspotat 2y agoI'm in a similar boat. Maybe Lobsters hasn't made headway across the Atlantic yet?
- d1sxeyes 2y agoIronic, since .rs is the TLD for the Republic of Serbia.
- haltcatchfire 2y agoGot you an invite :)
- tlarkworthy 2y agoThanks you, I have it at last! Been watching from the sidelines for 10 years!
- fsck0ff 2y agoNow if you want to pay it forward, I am in the same situation…
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- funkyfourier 2y agohttps://lemmy.world/c/technology https://lemmy.world/c/technology is pretty good.
- mongol 2y agoReddit. I used to be on X but I no longer am. LinkedIn, if that counts as a community... I see it mostly as a Rolodex
- _7acn 2y agoRegarding LinkedIn, It's quite the opposite for me. I use a Firefox plugin called "LinkedIn Feed Blocker" to avoid seeing what people post there.
- Morthor 2y agoI've found that some recruiters are posting roles instead of publishing roles. These are often more relevant than the suggestions I get from LinkedIn. Does that plug in allow specific filtering? Thanks
- _7acn 2y agoIt seems like it's blocking 100% of the feed. It’s just not there at all :D
- Eavolution 2y agoI used to use Kbin before it stopped working.
- rglullis 2y agoKbin was just one instance out of the dozens of active servers.
- usr1106 2y agoWhy would one need more? HN can already be a massive time killer. Yeah, for professional I also read lwn.net without discussing very frequently. For leisure/hobby I am in railway forums.
- Over2Chars 2y agoTrains!
- jacob_rezi 2y agoOnly me and a couple of my employees use it so far - https://www.rezi.ai/community/browse https://www.rezi.ai/community/browse
- nosmokewhereiam 2y agoTechno-club.net
- rosmax_1337 2y agoI use X/Twitter, I find it's quite good. Follow what you like and swap the feed to only display "Following".
- _7acn 2y agoI see that no one has mentioned Discord yet. I use it occasionally, and I have quite a few themed spaces there. However, I can't say that I particularly enjoy it. I mostly just check in from time to time. Discord always feels like a place where I miss a true sense of "community", which is very hard for me to define.
- Liquix 2y agoIMHO discord has far too much "community". at best you want to learn about $coolThing and the server is dominated by a handful of terminally online folks. at worst there's rampant extremism and grooming which goes largely unchecked also even the most benign discord servers are taking what used to be freely accessible (forums, hobby sites, fansites, etc) and walling the content into a proprietary system which demands your phone number, real IP, etc. it's slowly strangulating all other forms of internet community
- bsenftner 2y agoThis. Don't use discord if you have a choice.
- namrog84 2y agoI got a 2+ year ban from Discord for being 'inactive' (I didn't properly moderate a server I created), at least to the best of my understanding. Their appeal and discovery process are abysmal. Which a large variety of communities, sample projects, discussions that I found really useful, I now have 0 access too. I am just at a loss of what to do with having lost access to useful information, communities, and peers. This is far more prevalent and problematic in gamedev related communities compared to other software communities.
- bsenftner 2y agoWhy is "talk into a black hole" discord so popular? I'm a member of several discord severs, and they are just noise, or someone trying to project manage with Discord (which is a poor project manager) or whomever just assume you're there to work for them for free and they assign you work without asking.
- nxpnsv 2y agomastodon
- drsh0 2y ago- https://bearblog.dev/discover/ https://bearblog.dev/discover/ - http://www.metafilter.com/ http://www.metafilter.com/ - https://tildes.net/ https://tildes.net/ - sometimes bsky - discord servers of hobby and interest groups - some facebook groups for niches have been quite good as well surprisingly
- KronisLV 2y agoHN for discussions that are not as mean as elsewhere on the Internet, I rather like this community and there's people with lots of experience and cool stuff to share here. Mastodon for a comfy alternative to Twitter/X (feels less algorithmic, less ads), maybe Bluesky could serve a similar function. Discord or WhatsApp for chatting with friends, and also the sort of discussions that you would have had on forums back in the day (vs the shorter form content of Mastodon/Bluesky). I have to say that I dislike people replacing forums for various technologies with Discord though, since I feel like something like Discourse/phpBB/whatever would be a better fit, more easily searchable etc., just felt like mentioning that. Reddit or YouTube for seeing what's going on in the world, as well as any number of niche communities. For example, there's one about PC building, there's even one for Intel Arc GPUs, there's a lot of communities. Slack, Skype (the meetings are better than Zoom) or maybe eventually Mattermost/Jitsi for chatting with people at work. Now, it's not as much of a community as it is a news site, but LSM for some local reporting in my country: https://eng.lsm.lv/ https://eng.lsm.lv/ which doesn't seem to have too much clickbait or the rude comments you get on most of the sites in my country, e.g. instead there's stuff like this https://eng.lsm.lv/article/economy/transport/11.01.2025-be-late-for-work-or-go-to-riga-an-hour-early-what-should-jelgava-commuters-choose.a583268/ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/economy/transport/11.01.2025-be-l... I'm sure that most countries have some down to earth news sites too.
- nottorp 2y agoI don't think any service that you listed can be called a "community"? Yes, there are communities hosted on them, but they're just services.
- manuelmoreale 2y agoA few forums and other than that the only community I’m part of—if you can call it a community—is people with blogs. I read what they write, post on my own, and interact with them privately via email.
- agarttha 2y agoGemini https://geminiprotocol.net/ https://geminiprotocol.net/
- DoctorOetker 2y agois there a mathematics, physics, engineering community to be found on the gemini protocol? I would really appreciate a HN-like platform which 1) supports tags (more finegrained than lobste.rs which just dumps all of science under "science" or whatever) 2) supports math notation (latex or whatever)
- DemocracyFTW2 2y agoFlintstones, meet the Flintstones There the modern stone age family From the town of Bedrock There a page right out of history
- apirobots 2y agoMainly X, Reddit, and Discord for specific groups.
- novaRom 2y agogithub
- janaagaard 2y agoBluesky. A lot of the devs that I followed on X have moved to that platform.
- Dook_ 2y agoBut it is in a nutshell just X in a nutshell, an echo chamber in itself.
- parski 2y agoWhat are your favorite communities are not echo chambers?
- nemoniac 2y agoSome have voiced concerns about Bluesky using trackers. https://pnw.zone/@BlurryBitsPhoto/113804648365475726 https://pnw.zone/@BlurryBitsPhoto/113804648365475726
- __natty__ 2y agoReddit and Discord. I dislike how difficult is to find valuable information now because communities on discord are locked in custom tech. In the past I was active on some online forums for moto enthusiasts, gaming and news but this time is gone sadly. Now I try to minimise time spent online.
- openrisk 2y agoMastodon and Bluesky and various Discourse forums. Reluctantly on Reddit as the current activitypub alternatives don't feel quite right (emulating the chaos of Reddit). Even more reluctantly on Linkedin, given that there is no real alternative for a decentralized open source "professional" network, which shows how early we are in this transition process.
- IAmGraydon 2y agoI use Reddit, but very cautiously. The echo chamber effect is so strong over there and critical thinkers are not exactly rewarded, so many subreddits develop beliefs that are completely contrary to what’s going on in the real world. It’s also heavily astroturfed, which makes the problem worse as disinformation is constantly being injected. Sticking to subreddits about cooking, coding, landscaping, etc is usually fine.
- lordnacho 2y agoWell, I thought Reddit could be HN for other topics. I was wrong. It's mostly an echo chamber there, apart from the heavily moderated subs that normally start with r/Ask{Economists/Historians/Linguistics/etc} It still has some use as a personal news feed, but most of the comments are worthless. There's a few math and science subs that are a bit like StackOverflow back when that was still useful.
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- Over2Chars 2y agoI only use X/Twitter, now that Elon is in charge and cleaned it up.
- DemocracyFTW2 2y agoElon is that you, again? This is your mother. You know you should be in bed playing D4 at this time.
- Over2Chars 2y agoDon't bother me Mom, I'm playing PoE2 on hardcore mode again, on my totally not boosted account.
- johnofthesea 2y agoCurated corner of Mastodon. Open-source projects use Zulip/Discord/Matrix as forums so I go there as well. Others like sub-Reddits, HN or blogs I access mostly through RSS feeds. (With occasional exceptions like now.) For surface-level information/news there is huge overlap in those places. Many duplicates. My 2025 resolution is to be less online. I used to be on Instagram around 2010 till Facebook bought it and changed it from community to influencers-infested algorithms and ads - I have no time for that.
- romanhn 2y agoRands Leadership Slack is a fantastic and supportive community targeting Engineering and Product leaders primarily, but not exclusively. At around 35K members right now, it has channels on just about every topic. It's invite-only, but super easy to get invited.
- zzo38computer 2y agoUsenet, Libera IRC, bbs.geminispace.org, ifMUD, GitHub
- rosiesherry 2y agoIf testing / QA is your thing, www.ministryoftesting.com Otherwise, I hang out on Bluesky.