I read lobste.rs but don’t have an invite. It’s absent of politics and ideology discussions. Pure tech as far as I can tell. “What are you doing this weekend?” threads are fun.
Meh. It's a very small subset of tech and has all of the problems of '90s IRC (unnamed rules, cabals of power, cliques of opinion, minimal accountability) with none of the structure that more "modern" organizations (like OFTC) embraced. It's focused mostly around programming languages, tech minimalist culture, and open source culture, though they won't write that anywhere on the site. Anything else is either ignored, flagged, or shunned. Opinions there are strongly held, and opposing them will result in people being nasty to you. I largely view Lobste.rs as an anti-pattern of how to run a community.
