All the stories on the FP are about labor relations and corporate shenanigans. So anyway, do you like Star Trek or Star Wars better? Anybody still ike to read old school sci fi, for example I really love Poul Anderson’s Polesotechnic League stories - the swashbuckling adventures of intersteller trador Nicholas van Rijn and his Solar Spice and Liquors company, David Falkayne, et al. Good old basic space opera.
IMHO, this community should be about technology. Novel inventions. Interesting or creative applications. Discoveries. Dangers, advances, impacts, experiments, tutorials, etc.
Instead, it’s overrun with stock market and business news having no more to do with technology than CEOs of wood pulp factories have to do with literature.
I wish Rule 2 was phrased in a way that clearly excludes the latter, and enforced.
no more to do with technology than CEOs of wood pulp factories have to do with literature.
This has me envisioning a literature community filled with stories like “Random House and Penguin merging” (I know, old news), “Layoffs at PRH”, etc.
Technology cannot be disentangled from society and the economics that create and develop it. Technology is social process, it is not a technical matter.
The idea that technology is a thing on its own, maybe even with its own agency, is an ideological stance pushed first and foremost by the people you don’t want to hear about exactly for the purpose of obscuring their role in the whole deal.
I’ve kind of felt the same way, would rather have a somewhat-stronger focus on technology in this community.
The current top few pages of posts are pretty much all just talking about drama at social media companies, which frankly isn’t really what I think of as technology.
That being said, “technology” kind of runs the gamut in various news sources. I’ve often seen “technology news” basically amount to promoting new consumer gadgets, which isn’t exactly what I’d like to see from the thing, either. I don’t really want to see leaked photos of whatever the latest Android tablet from Lenovo or whatever is either.
I’d be more interested in reading about technological advances and changes.
I suppose that if someone wants to start a more-focused community, I’d also be willing to join that, give it a shot.
EDIT: I’d note that the current content here kind of mirrors what’s on Reddit at /r/Technology, which is also basically drama at social media companies. I suppose that there’s probably interest from some in that. It’s just not really what I’m primarily looking for.
I made !antisocialmedia@piefed.social for all the drama at social media companies
Hah, clever name!
+1 for an actual tech focused community. I think it has to be focused on software or hardware as a rule. News about stocks, CEOs, rebranding etc should not be allowed. Maybe put them in tech_news or something.
I want to read about what new feature the openbsd folks are working on or innovations by the quebes os team or a new RISC based laptop or the raspberry pi 420 that can play half life 3.
I think it has to be focused on software or hardware as a rule.
I don’t. Those fields are but small slivers in the realm of technology, and they’re not even particularly novel any more. A community dedicated to one or both of them might make sense, but there’s no reason to let them dominate the technology community.
News about stocks, CEOs, rebranding etc should not be allowed.
I agree with you there.
Fair enough, I would have thought most things would be related to either hardware or software but I could be overlooking something. I was just trying to propose a sensible approach that could be a starting point.
“Business” also exists. If it’s news about the business, not the technology, it should go to Business.
It might be too technical for some, but Linux Weekly News (lwn.net) has been a long-running source of articles dating back to the 1990s, if memory serves aright, that’s kind of in that ballpark.
EDIT: Hmm. It looks like at some point, some of their articles went subscriber-only, though.
Seriously, the mods need to step. This is a technology community, not a business community.
I completely agree with all the people regarding more “Technology” news, like MIT stacking more transistors onto chips breakthrough.
When I was looking for a tech community to subscribe to, I wasn’t expecting this… 🙈
Y’know, I was just browsing earlier and thinking that there wasn’t even any technology stuff in my feed anymore, it’d all been subsumed by the political churn…
Anyhow, to answer properly: I like Star Wars’ aesthetic better, but Star Trek also had some incredible stuff. I’ve also been increasingly burned out on Star Wars since the Disney takeover, to the point I barely follow it anymore. Back in the day I was neck-deep in the community of nerds who loved analyzing how the technology in the setting worked!
But the real love of my science-fiction life is Babylon 5. Something about how they planned the show’s myth arc out over multiple seasons leading to huge payoffs for both characters and the overall story.
Disney is really milking it, but I loved Andor.
I only watched a few episodes of Babylon 5 when it was new, but recently started at the beginning and I think it’s a great show now.
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Why should we give up the “technology” name?
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Or you could start posting about the technology related things you expect to see here?
Some of us do, but that doesn’t remove the unending flood of business news and corporate drama that we don’t want in our feeds, so it doesn’t solve the problem.
I would quite literally rather piss into the wind. At least then I’d be doing something outdoors.
Why tho? Politics and social issues are clearly what people want here - and that’s fine, my objection is just calling the community “Technology” when that’s not at all the dominant theme. Maybe “Tech-Adjacent” would be better.
Neither, baratna. I am of The Expanse.
I like turtles
TMNT never made enough sense to me.
Better?
Poul Anderson mentioned 🗣️ 🗣️🗣️
He and H.Beam Piper are my favorite SF writers, be sure to check Three Hearts and Three Lions, the book where the hero solves fantasy problems with Science™.
In my late 20s at a sci fi con, a friend came up and said, “Here’s someone I’d like you to meet,” and suddenly I was face to face with Poul Anderson. He was one of my idols - I had read the crap out of his work for years and years. I was so gobsmacked all that came out of my mouth was, “How do you say your first name?” Worst fail of my life.
I’ve never heard of HBP, will take a look.
He’s fun reading, though being a woman I also find his stuff kinda sexist. It’s basically cowboys in space.
I mostly read sci-fi from the late Golden Age and the New Wave, so I have a lot of practice in glossing over questionable bits!
Cowboys in space sounds fun.
The Little Fuzzy books are some of my favorites.
At time of writing, the top posts on this sub are about meta’s influence over politics, the enduring value of physical media, someone made an art gallery in doom, and Meta’s lack of censorship and how that affects minorities. This community is absolutely on topic discussing technology news and if you think otherwise, you are being absurd.
If you’re looking for articles about how some university claims they’ve invented a new battery 1 million times as powerful, stop diluting yourself. “Corporate shenanigans” of big tech companies IS TECHNOLOGY NEWS. Any statement to the contrary is pure hallucination about a world that never existed.
Following that line of reasoning, Zuckerberg buying a yacht is also tech news. 🙄
You’re the one being absurd.
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You mentioned a couple technical items but right now here are the top stories:
- Anti-LGBTQ+ speech is welcome at Meta, pro is not
- Tiktok tells LA staff to use PTO if they can’t work from home
- More LGBTQ+ stuff at Meta
- Spat between Tencent and US Defense Dept
- Something about USB logos simplifying branding
- UN opinion on taking down hate speech
- Viral ChatGPT-powered sentry gun shut down by OpenAI - HUZZAH! This article actually talks about the technology!!!
- Brazil complains about Meta’s new fact-check policies
- Unionization of the video game industry
- Meta disbands diversity team
- Lenovo making rollable OLED screens for laptops - WELL HEY THERE - ANOTHER TECHH ARTICLE!
- Complaining about bots on Lemmy
- It’s Total Chaos at Meta!
- Doom in an art gallery
- Google throws money at Trump inauguration
- New fast-charging lithium battery - HOLY CRAP, A THIRD TECHNICAL TOPIC OUT OF 16 - why, It’s practically raining tech in here!
- This post about science fiction, The next thing is about a Supreme Court ruling on Tiktok.
I think I’ve made my point. There’s almost no reason someone’s interest in technology would bring them here. It’s mostly political, social and business issues that happen to pertain to tech companies.
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Your post inspired me to share a video about some wacky CES products.
I think I committed a few cardinal sins because it did not go well. Haha
stop diluting yourself.
I hate to be that guy, but… it’s “deluding” in this context, unless OP is adding water to their body.
These people just want to talk about gadgets and none of the political implications, even though those implications are unavoidable. They are the classic centrist “apolitical” people who don’t realise they have politics, but they’re just default status quo acceptance and ignorance of oppression.
This is just an old man yelling at clouds. If the mods of this sub wanted to change the topics, they could, but it would probably tank the sub. The people complaining could start their own sub with their own rules, but I’ll bet it’s not nearly as popular. Plus it takes work, and people who think it’s a good use of their time to passive-aggressively whine about a sub they don’t maintain aren’t going to do that much work. They’re not cut out for it.
I am firmly Star Wars, my wife is Star Trek. It’s a mixed marriage. We both love Firefly and Doctor Who.
I have not yet shown her Battlestar Galactica.
Whoa!
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Hold it right there.
What about Babylon 5?!?
I love Babylon 5 and she loves what she has seen of Londo and G’Kar, but she hasn’t seen a lot of it.
She says: “Oh? You mean DS9?”
DS9 > TNG > BSG
New age sci-fi, but you have GOT to read the Murder Bot books. They are absolutely incredible. They’ve also won Nebula and Hugo awards.
Also: children of time series, as well as the bobiverse series
I haven’t read Children of Ruin yet, but Children of Time was awesome.
Ruin is awesome. The story is like going on an adventure.
People are split on Memory, but I like it. It’s just written differently
Martha Wells… cool, thanks!
I used to love Star Wars, but the movies kept not being that good.
They focus too heavily on one family and have not really built a world for people to live in.
I think the new TV shows are starting to do this, but I haven’t watched them too much.
I would really love Star Wars much more if the world building was a bit better.
The Mandalorian, Andor, and Skeleton Crew are all good IMO.
Yeah, I’ve heard good things about those. I need to make time for them.
