Comment on Another new "Technology" community.
who@feddit.org 5 weeks 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 businesses 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:
The posted rules remain vague, and the problem persists.
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.
Pro@programming.dev 5 weeks 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.
who@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
In that case, I suggest you define what fields of technology you mean, because practically everything is related to one technology or another.
I do subscribe to such communities, but no, I am not better served by them. There are relatively few active ones, and most are about computer hardware or software. That leaves out a vast array of other kinds of technology, each of which might not have enough daily news to support an active room of its own, but in aggregate would make for a genuinely interesting community distinct from the flood of tech-stock-drama that can be found in so many other places.
In any case, thanks for clarifying. I now know that your new community does not appeal to me.
andioop@programming.dev 5 weeks ago
I clicked !tech@programming.dev and at least by the sidebar it seems to intend to be that, though not too active, and I had to go report an opinion piece I agree with that got tons of upvotes even though the rules say no opinion pieces.
who@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
Thanks for bringing that to my attention. I just subscribed. Perhaps I’ll start posting things to that one instead of the .world room.