Where to have real tech discussions online? (See text)

Some ideas below.

Idea #1: Join the WELL. Seriously, this, for your OP, might be closest. Conferences [1, 2] (each of which can contain many long running threads on particular topics) somehow related to tech include the following: ai.ind, biztech, cloud.ind, internet, linux, macintosh, mastodon, media, mobile, networking.ind, podcast.ind, radio, science, softare, telecom, vc, web, webservers, welltech, windows

Idea #2: Join the Indie Makers [3] community on Skool, as launched 51 days ago on Hn at [3]. This will be more about communicating about what you and others are actually hacking, on probably.

Idea #3: Whatever your tech niches are, they may have a community somewhere. Too bad if it is not just a "general tech discussion" location, though, as the niches do seem sort of silo'd and focused. Slack, Matrix, email-based mailing lists, and RSS feeds (of blogs, websites, podcasts, etc.) are several "places" the OP does not list. Tech discussion on focused areas does currently often seem to be on Discord, Slack, or Matrix, usually linked from whatever the central company or technology is that is focused on it (as linked from that entity's profile, website, page, Linktree, etc.).

  [0] https://www.well.com
  [1] https://www.well.com/all-featured-conferences/
  [2] https://www.well.com/conferences/independent-conferences/
  [3] https://www.skool.com/indiemakers
  [4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40924936

Just for context - i have no online presence outside of hackernews.

I long for a social sounding board where people can have tech discussions with high availability across borders and with 0 politics

Where people don’t promote themselves and do it for the popularity, but for the true essence of discussion

I just want to discuss tech ideas with people, project ideas, ideas they’re working on, what they’ve tried, what’s worked and what hasn’t

In conversation, listening is more important than talking. How enthusiast are you to talk about what other people want to talk about?

##programming on libera irc. There are 755 people in the channel right now.

Lobste.rs is basically HackerNews, but with some features that make it better for engaging in a discussion (you get notifications when someone reply to you for example).

Depending on the technology you want to discuss, there might be Discord rooms/Slack channels available. For example the Golang Slack is pretty active and it’s easy to find people to talk to. I guess it’s the same for other languages

What is there to discuss?

I don't think there is any best place but if there was then it would be on an .onion site because without anonymity there will be censorship and people can go to prison. I wouldn't be surprised if UK soon begins searching for people who have supported Telegram CEO and then sending them to prison just like they are calling twitter users terrorists who retweet ongoing protests. Even Elon Musk is a terrorist according to UK. You better make sure your posts commenting on Telegram's CEO arrest can't be traced back to you.

Github.

email (eg mailman)