Why new Technology community?
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.
Erm !tech@programming.dev exists and does a fine job at doing what other tech communities doesn’t.
I don’t think so.
Things that don’t fit
- Minor app updates
- Government legislation
- Company news
- Opinion pieces
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.
Definitely agree
Eh, I thought different moderation philosophies were allowed, and as far as I know excluding commercial news is different from the rest given I avoid most tech communities because of all the tech-related-but-not-about-the-tech-itself articles. But my avoidance also means I have not touched every tech community, so if there is one that shares this moderation philosophy I get it.
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 business 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:
https://lemmy.world/post/22514253
https://lemmy.world/post/24137271
The posted rules remain vague, and the problem persists. The moderators seem to view quantity as more important than quality.
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.
Will !technology@programming.dev be it?
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.
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 dominates so many others.
In any case, thanks for clarifying. I now know that your new community does not appeal to me.
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.
Thanks for bringing that to my attention. I just subscribed. Perhaps I’ll start posting things to that one instead of the .world room.
