Lobsters is the natural choice - thoughtful tech discussion with strong moderation against hype. Also worth checking: comp.lang.* Usenet groups (surprisingly active), Reddit's niche programming subreddits (r/rust, r/golang), and specialty forums like electro-tech-online.com for hardware folks.
The key difference: smaller communities attract people who are there for the craft, not engagement metrics.
I also think just GPTs is not a good way for everyone.Now it's like google or something like google.But I relly need great agent in my life，like a real man，not AI.
Lobsters is the natural choice - thoughtful tech discussion with strong moderation against hype. Also worth checking: comp.lang.* Usenet groups (surprisingly active), Reddit's niche programming subreddits (r/rust, r/golang), and specialty forums like electro-tech-online.com for hardware folks.
The key difference: smaller communities attract people who are there for the craft, not engagement metrics.
> Also worth checking: comp.lang.* Usenet groups (surprisingly active)
Do you know of a newbie friendly FAQ on how to access usenet in the modern era?
>Reddit's niche programming subreddits (r/rust, r/golang)
Even less niche places like /r/python seem pretty open to writing code by hand. (Though I like how python has libraries for many things)
you can't join lobste.rs without begging though.
“I miss what HN was before Ai and LLMs started dominating everything!”
This might be your solution:
https://hn-ai.org/
I was thinking couldn't you just filter the AI stuff out. It normally seems to be less than 20% of items.
https://hn-ai.org/ features a quality index showing how much had to be filtered out.
I also think just GPTs is not a good way for everyone.Now it's like google or something like google.But I relly need great agent in my life，like a real man，not AI.
So far I've been able to keep it out of my various fediverse feeds and accounts.
Mailing lists for some of the stuff I use (Emacs, openbsd,...)