https://www.fastmail.com/blog/why-we-use-our-own-hardware
https://avi.im/blag/2024/sqlite-past-present-futureI'm yet to see the first karma ATM, where they can withdraw their karma and live a life well earnt!
I confess, I'll sometimes check out lobste.rs/recent and if there's anything interesting, pop over here to submit it.
Definitely substantial overlap in terms of posts that are interesting.
1. The mods there can "steal" your post and any credit for it, reassigning its authorship to one of their friends. This happens more often than you would think.
2. The users there have a major case of groupthink, much worse than us here, considering they don't even allow outsiders to register it they're not recommended by someone on the inside. Inbred is the label that comes to mind.
3. The community hates AI, and will downvote any valid submission just to drag you down to the lowest denominator. If you too hate AI, maybe it is the place for you.
I think any community has the right to run itself how it wishes. My major frustration with Lobsters is that it doesn't call out this editorial philosophy. The UX of the site and its legacy under jcs often give the impression that it's like any other link aggregator, so I would appreciate if the guidelines clearly called out the editorial approach of moderation.
That said, I would not use the word "inbred" here. They can run their community how they like and and we can dislike it, but insulting another community is generally counterproductive and petty.
Isn’t that a common feature of most forums? The orange site, in particular, isn’t generally regarded outside of its own bubble as a bastion of independent thought…
HN these days definitely has its share of meme bubble opinions (like reading the comments on any social media thread), but Lobsters is narrow enough that I can often predict all the comments to a post just based on reading its contents myself. This makes the site pretty boring because if it's so easily to mentally simulate the responses, I may as well just ignore the comments. Tech link aggregators usually source links from all the same places (Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter, RSS feeds) that I already do so Lobsters' value on top is minimal.
Martin Fowler's company is named "Thoughtworks". I guess he's trying to control the way we think about stuff?
The long tail on this site is what keeps bringing me back, although I must admit it took both swapping to RSS and manually filtering with an acceptance of Sturgeon's Law to wade through the "Make Mone¥ Fa$t" slush.
(note that the —to my mind, misguided— focus on the front pages means TFA misses a lot of the overlap between the two sites)
Really? As a Lobsters reader, I occasionally review the first page of the Lobsters Moderation Log, which is public for transparency’s sake: https://lobste.rs/moderations. And I’ve never seen any log about a story’s authorship being reassigned, whether for a good reason or a bad one.
According to my reading of the source code of Lobsters (https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters/blob/96cf0b32ee81bb1bd7...), such a change would be described in the Moderation Log as “changed user from the_original_user to another_user”. I just searched all moderation logs of story changes in the last two years (39 pages of logs), and no log contains the string “changed user from”. So whether “stealing” of posts ever happened, I don’t think Lobsters users have to worry about that happening now.
Or are you also accusing the mods of hiding those specific changes from the Moderation Log somehow?
Posted one too many self-promotional posts (though still within the terms and on-topic for the community). About 5-10% of my posts that were self-promotional.
Got read the riot act by the moderator. Wrote him a note saying that part of why I participated in lobste.rs was to share others great stuff, but part was to share my own stuff too. And if that wasn't in keeping with the community he was building, I was out.
Have logged in exactly once since then (to invite someone).
There's lots of links and decent comments on those: https://lobste.rs/t/ai
I wouldn't describe it as anything close to "hates".