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Share interesting Technology news and links. Rules: 1. No paywalled sites at all. 2. News articles has to be recent, not older than 2 weeks (14 days). 3. No videos. 4. Post only direct links. To encourage more original sources and keep this space commercial free as much as I could, the following websites are Blacklisted: - NBC. - CNBC. - NY Magazine. - Substack. - Tom’s Hardware. - ZDNet. - TechSpot. - Ars Technica. - The Verge. - Engadget. - TechCrunch. - Gizmodo. Encouraged: - Archive links in the body of the post. - Linking to the direct source, instead of linking to an article talking about the source.

!Technology@programming.Dev

Why new Technology community?

In my humble opinion, none of the existing Technology communities had achieved optimal moderation + fit home server for the community.

To achieve the optimal mix here, moderation would need to be kept to the minimum (Remove non appropriate, spam, bots and off-topic replies and posts) to encourage discussions, as long as it’s related to technology and to have it on tech related server.

More importantly, I am trying also my best to keep this technology space commercial free. In my opinion, commercial news organisations don’t have anything to do with tech news reporting.

Initially, I will be the only mod till I can appoint other trusted mods.

Hopefully, this community will grow beyond me as a mod and the philosophy behind it will be developed and adapted to other communities as well.

I will take the community members feedback, if any major change or issue happened.

Hopefully, I made my case here about why I think my community is important and how it’s aiming to differentiate itself from the other technology communities.

If you found a flaw in the rules or the philosophy, please point it out in the comments.

  • who@feddit.orgEnglish
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    17 days ago

    After being on !technology@lemmy.world for a while, I find it overwhelmingly tiresome due to so many posts that are not about technologies, but instead about business drama, the stock market, and politics. The most frequent posters there seem to think “technology” means “tech stocks and the executives behind them”. Any article about any organization that happens to use a technology (especially computers) is accepted, and since that means all businesses, the result is practically no filtering at all. The community is flooded with noise that clearly fits better elsewhere.

    If I wanted my feed filled with business drama, I would subscribe to a business or stocks community.

    People gently complain about this from time to time, often garnering lots of upvotes, but the moderator(s) do nothing about it. A few examples:

    https://lemmy.world/post/22514253

    https://lemmy.world/post/24137271

    https://lemm.ee/post/17164656

    The posted rules remain vague, and the problem persists. The moderators seem to view quantity as more important than quality.

    I wish there were a community where the bar was high enough to filter out most of that stuff, instead favoring news and discussions of technologies and their effects on the world. If one were to gain traction, I would gladly abandon the lemmy.world one and all the noise that it produces.

    Will !technology@programming.dev be it?

    • Pro@programming.devOPEnglish
      01·
      17 days ago

      I think not. I intend to keep the door for posts as wide as possible, as long as it’s related to technology.

      In my opinion, if your are tired from that, then you are better served by subscribing to a topic under the technology umbrella(Cyber security, hardware, software,… etc) , rather than the general technology community.