Leftist Tech Communities?

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:46:26 No.1831

Don't know about a site similar to HaackerNews but leftist in that way, but look into the Euro/German hacker community, like Chaos Computer Club / Chaos Communication Congress (AKA "CCC" and "C3"), there's a lot of appearances in that sphere of far-/ultra-left types.
Sites/communities that come to mind are also Mastodon, Matrix and Diaspora.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:46:26 No.1838

There used to be Arisuchan

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:46:27 No.1842

>>1838
Many of its users have returned to lainchan after its death.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:46:27 No.1843

>>1830
theres a socialist programmers subreddit

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:46:34 No.1919

>>1830
I sometimes browse lobste.rs since it's less obvious the blatant liberalness of everything.
I also sometimes browse lainchan but it's a very slow board and not really a news aggregator type site.
>>1843
I found out about it stalking Elm's cute twink creator. What I really want (I'm not OP) is a place that isn't riddled with shit liberal takes (bootlicking, self-help shit, entrepreneur bullshit, VC dicksucking, etc). The problem with that is that there's not a lot of "true" leftists in the first place, that are also software devs, that are also interested in discussion. Here and lainchan is the best place I have found.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:46:34 No.1920

I had hoped we could make one here.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:46:34 No.1922

>>1920
Too bad only autistic screeching about everything that's not written by Microsoft or in C is allowed here.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:46:34 No.1923

>>1922
Do you mean not allowed or that people don't like it?

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:46:35 No.1930

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>>1923
I mean that any time you try to discuss anything, some lowlife always starts spreading FUD and spamming those /pol/-tier Wojak memes.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:46:38 No.1975

I found out about lemmy, wich is a reddit clone inhabited by mostly left leaning people.

>>1930
Oh, that guy. Yeah, he's pretty active.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:46:38 No.1981

>>1842
pseudoscience loving loons cluster on there these days, better off avoiding it. Its not very tech either, I haven't been there since I was warned for a research paper and game console hardware doc pdf dump personally.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:46:39 No.1989

>>1981
I sure hope you're not referring to the 5G threads lately. There's clearly good evidence of negative effects from long-term radiofrequency exposure.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:46:39 No.1990

>>1981
Don’t forget the “your experience with raping” thread.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:46:41 No.2009

>>1975
this one? it's impossible to find it in search engines unless you write "lemmy reddit" lol
https://dev.lemmy.ml

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:47:34 No.2644

>>1842
lainchan's been shit ever since kalyx sold the site to appleman.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:47:35 No.2648

>>1981
I remember you, I defended you on that, was getting annoyed at the hypocrisy of the moderation at the time.

Fascism, rape, and otherkin shit started taking over earlier this year, it's a shame

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:48:05 No.2988

Here are two things full of radlibs, if you prefer that:
https://old.reddit.com/r/socialistprogrammers/
https://raddle.me/f/Tech

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:48:07 No.3015

>>2988
Raddle is terrible. Peak radlib cancer.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:48:20 No.3175

>>1989
I wouldn't be surprised if 5G health conspiracy theories are themselves perpetuated by tech industry to steer opposition and paint it as loonies. All they need to do then is ensure the general public that it's not dangerous to your health. Both sides of the debate (the "stupid conspiracy theorists" and the "enlightened intellectuals") took the bait.
The actual question is what 5G tech entails politically. Do we want to live in smart cities where everything is recorded, interconnected, optimized and managed by algorithms, so that the existing social order is never disturbed?

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:48:21 No.3176

>>3175
Anti-G5 is a completely rational response to over a century of corporations knowingly lying out their ass about the health effects of their products (from cigarettes to fossil fuels to BPA to Roundup to fracking run off to Tamiflu and beyond) and G5 infrastructure being pushed out quickly with no consultation of communities.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:48:21 No.3177

>>3176
It's also a rational response to anyone who's actually spent some time reading studies linking chronic radio exposure to enhanced DNA/cell damage.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:48:23 No.3200

>>3177
so the movie johnny mnemonic was right then

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:49:31 No.3869

anyone know what this is about?
https://gnulag.net/

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:49:38 No.3936

You know, having contact and discussing opinions and world views different than your own is something very healthy.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:49:40 No.3956

>>2648
Fascism was a problem before kalyx sold the site. I would know; I was on the modteam from 2015 to 2017.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:49:43 No.3986

>>1830
Yeah.
>>>/tech/

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:50:20 No.4348

>>1830
HackerNews is the fucking worst community. I know someone who is reactionary-lite, and constantly talks about how terrible reddit is (no shit) so he moved to HackerNews because it's a more "sensible, non-biased" community. a community that consists of libertarian incels that make 200k a year bitching constantly about minorities/shit that does not affect them. cringe.

i think this board is the closest thing to what OP is looking for, but after seeing the massive walls of text over completely unrelated shit further down this thread, i'm not so sure.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:50:20 No.4349

>>4348
How can they not have sex with 200k a year?

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:50:20 No.4350

>>4348
Its one fucking nut going on about spooky minorities and drawing in unrelated people trying to argue with him, as usual

Level One Techs forums are pretty good, especially for learning about Cloud Stuff, I also like their news round ups

>>4349
Go there and read their shit lmao and you'll understand

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:50:20 No.4352

>>4348
I agree about hacker news. I'd say they are a mix of steven pinker (neo-)liberals and "rational" libertarians. Interestingly, I saw a comment on hacker news saying that "if I wanted to know that vaccines cause autism, [other fake conspiracies theories], I'd go to reddit, not here", implying reddit is a schizo asylum. Interesting because I assumed reddit was mostly a liberal le I fucking love science circle jerk.

I mentioned it before, https://lobste.rs is the only tech news site I can tolerate, besides the subreddits of specific technology, eg r/haskell, etc. Tech, as it exists now, is tied to politics and to capitalism more generally, you can't really escape that, so you'll occasionally see bad takes.

I saw that lemmy shit but I'm just so burnt from reddit that seeing the interface gave me PTSD.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:50:21 No.4364

>>3177
links to these studies?

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:50:22 No.4366

>>4364
There's some good links here:
http://www.wrongkindofgreen.org/2020/05/04/we-have-no-reason-to-believe-5g-is-safe/

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:53:22 No.5988

>>6646
lainchan isn’t hugely leftist but it’s pretty nice

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:53:23 No.5997

>>5988
>cyberpunk imageboard
>lots of lolbertarians and downright fashies
never stops being funny

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:53:58 No.6304

>>4348
>>4352
Yep. HN sometimes gets decent links posted when they're not praising some randumb-messpelynk.io for advancing the state of the art on disrupting labour laws and user privacy, or fapping to Paul Graham's latest brainfart. But the community makes a really compelling case for nuking San Francisco.

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Anonymous 2021-05-25 (Tue) 18:18:58 No.8773

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OP here. Since then, I haven't found anything significant besides this board, but there's a new small sub https://www.reddit.com/r/techtakes/ where people dunk on HN reactionaries and PG's dumb takes.

It is an offshoot from https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/ where folks dunk on the "rationalist" community stars (mostly Eliezer Yudkowsky and Scott "Alexander" Siskind).

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Anonymous 2021-05-26 (Wed) 06:30:00 No.8787

Just go on slashdot. It's shit though.

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how very nostalgic Anonymous 2021-05-26 (Wed) 06:44:32 No.8788

Sl*shdot, how much time has it been?

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Anonymous 2021-05-26 (Wed) 12:51:05 No.8791

>>3986
>>1920
Based

This is our place and we have to cultivate it

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Anonymous 2021-05-28 (Fri) 04:55:32 No.8818

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>>1830
>dae le STEM fascist virgin techbros vs Chad humanities scholars
>wtf? why aren't there any left-wing tech communities?