First of all can I even call this a sub? What is it?
My question for us to collectively decide overtime is: will this be HN[0] or Lobsters[1] with lefties, or will is just be about China vs US consumer tech news? I personally would like to see the former because those sites can be fun (aka a yuge time sink) until you read the dogshit takes in the comments. I hope this place encourages real discussion including but not limited to GNU/Linux distro wars, the BSDs, mpv[2], languages, webdev, security, cyberpunk, cypherpunk, hating on OOP, free software (besides rms), Emacs[3] vs Vi[4] and God's True Language™ Lisp. You know, the good stuff.
I guess we will all find out the direction this place will take together. To a bright future shitposting together, comrades!
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/ [1] https://lobste.rs/ [2] https://mpv.io/ [3] https://gnu.org/s/emacs [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Editor_war
I often like to use "Be the change you want to see in the world" kinda tongue-in-cheek, but in this case we're all starting with a blank slate so it genuinely applies. Start making the kinds of posts you wanna see, and people will tend to build off it. I would also like to see this sub go that way too, for the record.
Though also, it does depend a bit on what other c/s get made in the coming weeks. Might be that some specific topics like opsec get their own community, though idk if this community has enough activity to justify splitting into subtopics yet.
edit: lol there's 14 posts on this whole gd sub rn. If you make a post right now you'll account for 6.6% of the entire sub's posts. So seriously, go for it.
I'm here to flame anyone who isn't a true believer in Emacs and Scheme
At this point in the life cycle of the website, all the subs are pretty broad. They need to accommodate everything that would reasonably fall under that umbrella until the whole thing is bigger and it can break into more specialized subs. So this should cover all of the above and more. Personally I'm interested in Fediverse stuff, China tech, consumer tech, alternative/socialist tech history, and transportation tech. But I'm happy to share the space with coding gobbledyremoved.
Honestly I still like HN for the content, even though the comments can often become techbro lib(/ertarian) central quite easily. That said, even the comments can be pretty great most of the time.
