Where do you discuss computer related stuff now?

Question

With so many twitter alternatives, the death of forums, the explosion of chats / video platforms and the reddit shenanigans, we are once again facing this decades old question.So far, only Hacker News has stood the test of time, and you cannot really discuss random topics, it's more about link sharing. "Ask HN" is not the main dish, so to speak, and the heavy curating that keeps the quality up also limit the volume of interactions by design.So where do you go when you want to geek out?

overvale · Accepted Answer

Hacker News. I think too much attention is paid to the front page. Sure, it is my main source of great links, but all the good discussions I've had are on not very popular posts. Try exploring these: https://news.ycombinator.com/lists

mabynogy · Answer

I'm hanging with other programmers at #dailyprog. It's a channel on irc.rizon.net (https://dailyprog.org/members/).

jstx1 · Answer

Reddit and HN. Signed up for a bunch of Discord channels but it never clicked for me - it&rsquo;s super chaotic and at the same time it feels like you&rsquo;re speaking into the void with nobody interesting to talk to.

zzo38computer · Answer

Some things I will discuss on Usenet, some on IRC, and some on here (although it is not always as good as the others, there are often more messages, and some of them are good), and sometimes a few others.

disadvantage · Answer

Looking into Lemmy. Signed up on a few instances. It's not exactly a Reddit Killer App but it works for now. Not that much engagement on my posts since people are only testing the waters with it.

DamonHD · Answer

Mastodon is good for various forms of geekery, eg energy, computing...

thejosh · Answer

Work Slack channels now (we even have a mechanical keyboards channel!!), random YouTube video comment sections from level1techs/level1linux :)?