What other communities do you use apart from HN?
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·January 12, 2025KronisLV
HN for discussions that are not as mean as elsewhere on the Internet, I rather like this community and there's people with lots of experience and cool stuff to share here.
Mastodon for a comfy alternative to Twitter/X (feels less algorithmic, less ads), maybe Bluesky could serve a similar function.
Discord or WhatsApp for chatting with friends, and also the sort of discussions that you would have had on forums back in the day (vs the shorter form content of Mastodon/Bluesky). I have to say that I dislike people replacing forums for various technologies with Discord though, since I feel like something like Discourse/phpBB/whatever would be a better fit, more easily searchable etc., just felt like mentioning that.
Reddit or YouTube for seeing what's going on in the world, as well as any number of niche communities. For example, there's one about PC building, there's even one for Intel Arc GPUs, there's a lot of communities.
Slack, Skype (the meetings are better than Zoom) or maybe eventually Mattermost/Jitsi for chatting with people at work.
Now, it's not as much of a community as it is a news site, but LSM for some local reporting in my country: https://eng.lsm.lv/ which doesn't seem to have too much clickbait or the rude comments you get on most of the sites in my country, e.g. instead there's stuff like this https://eng.lsm.lv/article/economy/transport/11.01.2025-be-l... I'm sure that most countries have some down to earth news sites too.
nottorp
I don't think any service that you listed can be called a "community"?
Yes, there are communities hosted on them, but they're just services.
rosmax_1337
I use X/Twitter, I find it's quite good. Follow what you like and swap the feed to only display "Following".
mglz
Lemmy caught traction and feels like the old intrnet sometimes.
denvermullets
i like lemmy. feels very small but not dead. it's nice
noisy_boy
For someone new to lemmy and a tech-interested HN user, which communities I should subscribe to?
denvermullets
i started lemmy with a programming instance, as it's a bit more focused on what i want to see. on android i use an app 'Sync for Lemmy' which makes it a little easier when i want to branch out into viewing all of lemmy.
honestly, any platform these days is going to need a lot of filtering to cut out what you don't want to see
TomasEkeli
programming.dev has some good ones
wruza
I filter by technology/english, click "explore" on a couple of servers and it greets me with:
- Mel Gibson something Nazi
- Epic CEO says Trump Trump
- Tencent Chinese something military
- Justice Trump 34 felonies
- Republicans sound eager
Not sure if I want to "explore" "technology" further.
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Reddit and Discord. I dislike how difficult is to find valuable information now because communities on discord are locked in custom tech.
In the past I was active on some online forums for moto enthusiasts, gaming and news but this time is gone sadly. Now I try to minimise time spent online.
janaagaard
Bluesky. A lot of the devs that I followed on X have moved to that platform.
nemoniac
Some have voiced concerns about Bluesky using trackers.
mongol
Reddit. I used to be on X but I no longer am. LinkedIn, if that counts as a community... I see it mostly as a Rolodex
MaxGripe
Regarding LinkedIn, It's quite the opposite for me. I use a Firefox plugin called "LinkedIn Feed Blocker" to avoid seeing what people post there.
hiAndrewQuinn
Online communities? Primarily X and Github. Sometimes Reddit for my Finnish language learning resources.
Offline? I'm mostly fine with my current friends and family.
funkyfourier
https://lemmy.world/c/technology is pretty good.
romanhn
Rands Leadership Slack is a fantastic and supportive community targeting Engineering and Product leaders primarily, but not exclusively. At around 35K members right now, it has channels on just about every topic. It's invite-only, but super easy to get invited.
manuelmoreale
A few forums and other than that the only community I’m part of—if you can call it a community—is people with blogs. I read what they write, post on my own, and interact with them privately via email.
jacob_rezi
Only me and a couple of my employees use it so far - https://www.rezi.ai/community/browse
johnofthesea
Curated corner of Mastodon. Open-source projects use Zulip/Discord/Matrix as forums so I go there as well. Others like sub-Reddits, HN or blogs I access mostly through RSS feeds. (With occasional exceptions like now.)
For surface-level information/news there is huge overlap in those places. Many duplicates. My 2025 resolution is to be less online.
I used to be on Instagram around 2010 till Facebook bought it and changed it from community to influencers-infested algorithms and ads - I have no time for that.
For example: apart from HN, I take part in Reddit and Bluesky. Facebook and Instagram ane inertia. Twitter/X is never more.