Lobsters Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• Ask HN: Which news aggregators can provide an alternative to Hacker News?

  Https://lobste.rs/ is an alternative that's more focused on tech news. - Source: Hacker News / 20 days ago

• Range Partitioning: Zero to One

  Oh also, https://lobste.rs and filter by the `distributed` tag. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

• Y Combinator's Chief Startup Whisperer Is Demoting Himself

  "I actually wish we had a hacker community like this without the business/startup side at all" Sounds like you want https://lobste.rs. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

• Banned for Self-Promo

  Reason: Ignored mod warning to stop self-promo for a while. Respectively: https://lobste.rs/domains/rednafi.com https://lobste.rs/~rednafi/stories. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago

• What Went Wrong at Techstars?

  Well, there's https://lobste.rs/, or we could all go back to slashdot I guess. - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago

• Lobster.rs Invite

  I assume this is what you're looking for https://lobste.rs/. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• Happy New Year HN

  > Hacker News, but also lobster.rs First time I hear about it. I think you meant https://lobste.rs. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Missing A-Record for HTTPS://Lobste.rs

  I can't reach lobsters at the moment and it seems to be a DNS issue? https://lobste.rs. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• Ask HN: Has Lobste.rs Expired?

  I just noticed that Firefox says “Server Not Found” when I tried to visit https://lobste.rs/ WHOIS says:

      Domain name: lobste.rs.

  - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• Ask HN: What are some excellent blogs, news boards, YouTube channels to follow?

  For a great fusion of art and engineering I can warmly recommend Wintergatan’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Wintergatan As a complement to HN, Lobsters isn’t too shabby: https://lobste.rs. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• Lobsters

  Weird because primarily submitting one's own stuff seems to be pretty common there. Random example from a user currently on the front page: https://lobste.rs/~rednafi/stories And that is not the only one on the front page right now that's submitting mostly their own stuff. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• Lobsters

  > when I attempted to post my things, I get told that this content is not welcome on the site. Why my content is not welcome and other people's self-promotional articles are I don't quite understand, but it is obvious they don't need me on the website. I feel the same. I spent a fair bit of time on the site, including posting ~600 articles and commenting. Some of my posts got a fair bit of upvotes. I got a couple... - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• Male Tech Conference Founder Is Behind Popular Woman Coding Influencer Account

  There’s a typo in the article, it should be https://lobste.rs/ rather than .ers. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• Show HN: Hacker News-like forum exclusively for software dev-related topics

  Neat idea! If I recall correctly, this was the same frustration that Lobsters[1] was created. In the case of Lobsters, moderation decision have carefully been considered and implemented. My two cents is that it's when it comes to comments - and moderation - that things get challenging. It's also where both HN and Lobsters managed to find a (hopefully) sustainable model. Good luck with this! [1] https://lobste.rs. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

• Ask HN: What are some communities like HN?

  Lobsters (Strictly computer science focused ) — https://lobste.rs/ (invite only, email me for an invite) LessWrong (Rationality focused discussions) — https://www.lesswrong.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

• Artic Code Vault

  Not off topic at all! The title is wrong and should be fixed! All the OP had to do is just copy->paste :^P Maybe it is just me but I find it jarring when someone decides "Nah, copy /paste is for shumucks, I'll type it all myself." and then does a silly typo some people's brains go like "Huh!? That doesn't look right. What's an 'artic'?". Tip for HN - look what https://lobste.rs/ is doing: you paste the URL, and it... - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

• Rust Drama, dtolnay behind ThePhd's Rust-conf treatment

  The lobste.rs thread that started it, also archived just in case: https://archive.ph/VRQ0H#c_5cye7q. Source: 8 months ago

• [meta] Absurd amount of bots in this sub

  I've mentioned before that I'm a big fan of invite trees (like how lobste.rs has) where each user is functionally a child account of another user. It would make moderation incredibly simple in that if you determined one account was a malicious bot, you could potentially just nuke the account that invited the bot and then recursively nuke every child account. Source: 10 months ago

• [Meta] Announcing realtesla@lemmy.world

  There's specialized communities: such as https://squabbles.io, https://lobste.rs, and https://tildes.net/. Unlike Reddit, these sites are aiming at smaller growth, so its more difficult to sign up for these communities. Like https://beehaw.org, without the hopes of future federation, they have strong moderator teams and seem to have built a good community. Source: 10 months ago

• By community vote, r/Python will Return to a Blackout

  Can't say I agree. I love Lobste.rs but I agree with /u/judasblue. Most importantly, I don't think it wants to be the replacement. Source: 10 months ago

• By community vote, r/Python will Return to a Blackout

  My personal recommendation is https://lobste.rs as a replacement, and r/learnpython and the python discord for specific coding questions. Source: 10 months ago