12 points by jc_811 3 days ago | 9 comments
- Lobsters is the natural choice - thoughtful tech discussion with strong moderation against hype. Also worth checking: comp.lang.* Usenet groups (surprisingly active), Reddit's niche programming subreddits (r/rust, r/golang), and specialty forums like electro-tech-online.com for hardware folks.
The key difference: smaller communities attract people who are there for the craft, not engagement metrics.
- > Also worth checking: comp.lang.* Usenet groups (surprisingly active)
Do you know of a newbie friendly FAQ on how to access usenet in the modern era?
>Reddit's niche programming subreddits (r/rust, r/golang)
Even less niche places like /r/python seem pretty open to writing code by hand. (Though I like how python has libraries for many things)
- you can't join lobste.rs without begging though.
- “I miss what HN was before Ai and LLMs started dominating everything!”
This might be your solution:
- I was thinking couldn't you just filter the AI stuff out. It normally seems to be less than 20% of items.
- https://hn-ai.org/ features a quality index showing how much had to be filtered out.
- I also think just GPTs is not a good way for everyone.Now it's like google or something like google.But I relly need great agent in my life，like a real man，not AI.
- So far I've been able to keep it out of my various fediverse feeds and accounts.
- Mailing lists for some of the stuff I use (Emacs, openbsd,...)