Another new "Technology" community.

Submitted ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Pro@programming.dev⁩ to ⁨newcommunities@lemmy.world⁩

!Technology@programming.Dev

Why new community Technology?

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.

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sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Erm !tech@programming.dev exists and does a fine job at doing what other tech communities doesn’t.

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- Pro@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I don’t think so.
  
  Things that don’t fit
  
  Minor app updates
  
  Government legislation
  
  Company news
  
  Opinion pieces
  
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  - sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I honestly don’t see a niche in which a new community fits. Surely it would be better to help moderate the existing community. Trust me, Lemmy has enough Technology communities.
    
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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:

lemmy.world/post/22514253

lemmy.world/post/24137271

lemm.ee/post/17164656

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.

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- 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.
  
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  - who@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    
    as long as it’s related to technology.
    
    In that case, I suggest you define what fields of technology you mean, because practically everything is related to one technology or another.
    
    you are better served by subscribing to a topic under the technology umbrella(Cyber security, hardware, software,… etc) , rather than the general technology community.
    
    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.
    
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