High-Quality Content
Lobste.rs has a reputation for hosting high-quality content, primarily focused on technology, programming, and related topics, which attracts knowledgeable users.
Community Moderation
The site employs a community moderation system where users can vote on submissions and comments, helping to maintain a high standard of discussion.
Invitation-Only Membership
New users can only join through an invitation from an existing member, which helps to preserve the quality of the community and reduce spam.
Open-Source Platform
The Lobste.rs codebase is open-source, allowing for community contributions and transparency in how the site operates.
Minimalist Design
The website features a clean and minimalist design that focuses on content without distractions, making it easy to navigate and read.
Https://lemmy.world/ – Fediverse, you can launch your own instance, people actually use it and content isn’t that bad. Not worse than reddit, IMO. https://tildes.net/ – Like old.reddit – Was made by an ex reddit admin that made AutoModerator that was wrongly axed. Lot of issues with reddit over the years, Huffman is just one of them. Invitation only, so you can’t submit content, but if you’re happy lurking it’s…
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about 2 months ago
Maybe something like https://lobste.rs/ where you have to get vouched by another poster before you can comment.
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2 months ago
Https://lobste.rs exists and is open https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters Now you need to have a better UI than both places and get the interest of people who are not satisfied with all of HN, lobsters and Reddit. It’s going to be a really hard thing to achieve.
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3 months ago
Https://lobste.rs/ is an alternative that’s more focused on tech news.
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6 months ago
Oh also, https://lobste.rs and filter by the `distributed` tag.
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6 months ago
“I actually wish we had a hacker community like this without the business/startup side at all” Sounds like you want https://lobste.rs.
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6 months ago
Reason: Ignored mod warning to stop self-promo for a while. Respectively: https://lobste.rs/domains/rednafi.com https://lobste.rs/~rednafi/stories.
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6 months ago
Well, there’s https://lobste.rs/, or we could all go back to slashdot I guess.
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7 months ago
I assume this is what you’re looking for https://lobste.rs/.
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8 months ago
> Hacker News, but also lobster.rs First time I hear about it. I think you meant https://lobste.rs.
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9 months ago
I can’t reach lobsters at the moment and it seems to be a DNS issue? https://lobste.rs.
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9 months ago
I just noticed that Firefox says “Server Not Found” when I tried to visit https://lobste.rs/ WHOIS says:
Domain name: lobste.rs.
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9 months ago
For a great fusion of art and engineering I can warmly recommend Wintergatan’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Wintergatan As a complement to HN, Lobsters isn’t too shabby: https://lobste.rs.
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10 months ago
Weird because primarily submitting one’s own stuff seems to be pretty common there. Random example from a user currently on the front page: https://lobste.rs/~rednafi/stories And that is not the only one on the front page right now that’s submitting mostly their own stuff.
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10 months ago
> when I attempted to post my things, I get told that this content is not welcome on the site. Why my content is not welcome and other people’s self-promotional articles are I don’t quite understand, but it is obvious they don’t need me on the website. I feel the same. I spent a fair bit of time on the site, including posting ~600 articles and commenting. Some of my posts got a fair bit of upvotes. I got a couple…
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10 months ago
There’s a typo in the article, it should be https://lobste.rs/ rather than .ers.
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10 months ago
Neat idea! If I recall correctly, this was the same frustration that Lobsters[1] was created. In the case of Lobsters, moderation decision have carefully been considered and implemented. My two cents is that it’s when it comes to comments – and moderation – that things get challenging. It’s also where both HN and Lobsters managed to find a (hopefully) sustainable model. Good luck with this! [1] https://lobste.rs.
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11 months ago
Lobsters (Strictly computer science focused ) — https://lobste.rs/ (invite only, email me for an invite) LessWrong (Rationality focused discussions) — https://www.lesswrong.com/.
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almost 1 year ago
Not off topic at all! The title is wrong and should be fixed! All the OP had to do is just copy->paste :^P Maybe it is just me but I find it jarring when someone decides “Nah, copy /paste is for shumucks, I’ll type it all myself.” and then does a silly typo some people’s brains go like “Huh!? That doesn’t look right. What’s an ‘artic’?”. Tip for HN – look what https://lobste.rs/ is doing: you paste the URL, and it…
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about 1 year ago
The lobste.rs thread that started it, also archived just in case: https://archive.ph/VRQ0H#c_5cye7q.
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about 1 year ago
I’ve mentioned before that I’m a big fan of invite trees (like how lobste.rs has) where each user is functionally a child account of another user. It would make moderation incredibly simple in that if you determined one account was a malicious bot, you could potentially just nuke the account that invited the bot and then recursively nuke every child account.
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about 1 year ago
