cracauer@
Developer
A guy who used to work for me asked him why he posts there. He replied that he's on reddit for other things--other subs--and only posts there cause he's in the neighborhood. No other reason.
It's just far too easy to get sucked in to the stupidest arguments with the worst people on the internet.Nah, that would require visiting reddit
I don't mind stupid arguments.
True. Reddit is good for discussing topics where there are recurrent changes, e.g. sport, AI models (they change often), songs, books, films. Also experiences in using certain evolving technologies. But for ever-green discussions on philosophical questions, it is better a traditional forum with a smaller audience, otherwise it is an annoying repetition of the same concepts. One become the BOT of him-self.
Same here. I have not intentionally gone there--I want to say for a decade or more--except when someone sends me a link and I didn't pay attention. One guy I know got in the habit of just copy/pasting what he wants to show me and email it to me to avoid my jumping down his throat for the link.
cracauer@ I remember the last time I went there I got sucked into one of those things where someone wrote something obviously wrong about FreeBSD. I made a minor comment to correct him along with a link to the documentation. He continued to argue I was wrong while others commented about my mental condition and continued downvoting into oblivion while other jumped all up and down about how they aren't FreeBSD users and that the problem was the reason they never use FreeBSD while posting on the FreeBSD sub. And that wasn't the first time but it was definitely my last.
Sure, there has to be some good stuff on there somewhere. It's just a platform at the end of the day. I don't usually bother with it just because other sites (like this forum) are generally much better. And there does seem to be a lot of noise in many of the discussions on reddit.
That's "Foghorn Leghorn"
. Whoever thought this stuff up was brilliant!Yeah, that was basically my problem with Discord - someone wanted to talk about political issues totally unrelated to FreeBSD - while using the FreeBSD Discord server for that. I tried to call the guy out on that - and got banned by a mod who was personal friends with the kid. Happened over a year ago. I am under impression that the kid never really understood the extent to which his agenda was out of place specifically on the FreeBSD Discord server.
I am using irc and I asked on #freebsd few times and got the answer very fast. But as you said the irc is not the same as was 40 years ago
.If you go looking for noise you can find it.
Linkedin is another one I never bother with. I thought monster and indeed were just job adverts.
All the public job boards are infested with scammers, precisely because they're public services where anyone can post, and nobody will pull a "know your client" or enforce any kind of accountability.
If I didn't missed something, you linked an empty forum, without users, and with 2 yearly new messages, and 2 weekly visitors. Probably this number will increase 10000% after you linked it, here
A better example can be this Reddit homelab community. It is full of examples, from the crazies one, to the inspiring and professionally done. Despite having 536K weekly visitors and ~ 10K weekly messages it is surprisingly a "nice place". Probably also because for each new post, there must be some real work done.
