Technology

Dunno about communities, but https://www.science.org/ and https://www.sciencenews.org/ are all about science

This is specific to open source, but perhaps a good starting point: https://opensourcely.org/

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.

Good post. I have 3 new subs now thanks to the comments :D

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

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).

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.

You'll probably enjoy Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/

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

I like phoronix.com but don't bother reading the article comments.

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.

LWN is good for Linux kernel related content.

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.

If you don't want drama, then Torvalds' work might not be the best project to follow

Probably Hackaday. https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]

Might scope out the forums and comments sections at Ars Technica. There’s a wealth of information from a ton of the regulars.

Hacker news still going strong, you get the drama stories here and there but the focus is on the technology

Hacker News is probably your best bet as long as you don't go too deep in the comments

I'm working on finding a focus for [email protected]

Edit: open to suggestions

maybe slashdot.org but it's not a community per see

If you are looking for a video format, there is the "Research Road" series on the channel "The Roads with Beau", which is usually a political channel. It is AI narrated, but the people behind the channel are genuine and well informed.

That's what news means

This is about tech related news