Lobsters

“why not go to lobste.rs and unselect the AI button and you won't see AI”

“They focus more heavily on technical discussions, which I find more rewarding.”

“they have a moderation policy which forbids the most egregious forms of advertising and astroturfing”

“their posts being focused on ideas and concepts versus advertisements”

“lobste.rs has a filter for AI/LLM related content if you want pre-2023 computing fare without the slop and upheaval”

“I would visit lobste.rs more if it filtered out stories that are on Hacker News.”

“allows you to filter the entire site by tags, so you only see what you want to see”

“lobste.rs got fairly boring since it's always the same stuff over and over again”

“questionable moderation decisions and selective application of the rules”

“The owner occasionally steals credit from posters, changing the author of posts to his own friends”

“It's a site where you learn to keep your mouth shut if your input doesn't agree with what the core users want to hear.”

“It's a wonderful place. It feels like HN, but with the Silicon Valley attitude dialed way way way down”

“On Lobsters it actually got to the point where I no longer felt welcome on the site”

“I like Lobsters' design and would love to switch over, but it's still invite-only”

“Lobsters has all the same stories as this place but lets me filter out vibe coding articles”

“it comes with the benefit of creating an association graph of accounts that allows for swift moderation”

“People referred to me as an exhibitionist and fetishist when I talked about using AI.”

“it builds up a community gradually, because you need to be invited by someone”

“Invite only, which keeps the quality up, and the tag system lets you actually filter what you see.”

“If you want more granularity, one step in the right direction is Lobsters.”

“There's lots of good ideas between the tagging, flag explanations, the moderation log, etc.”

“Lobste.rs is against AI in a pretty fanatical way and most posts have little to no discussion”

“I think that lobster.rs has less "trend chasing" point of views these days”

“I'm a fan of smaller communities that are semi-open: invite-only, but invites aren't that hard to get.”

“folks on lobste.rs are (mostly) friendly and willing to extend invites if you seem like a real person”

“That looks interesting, but I feel like it's likely to be close to impossible to join.”

“I've become a big fan of lobste.rs' invitation tree approach, where the reputation of new accounts rides on the reputation of older accounts”

“Lobste.rs mostly are what HN used to be, with less focus on startup culture and more focus on hacking.”

“I like that for all the LLM/agentic news spam they apply the tag "vibecoding"”

“The experience there is more heavily aligned toward groupthink and the "right" opinions than even HN”

“The technical "hacker" content is getting less and less -- thank God for lobste.rs”

“Lobste.rs is a good if not extreme example: it's kind of a vouch system for the people you refer and there's pretty good moderation to prevent overly mean discussion.”

“Lobsters has better technical signal/noise but is much more bitter, zero sum, and political.”

“if you want more informationally dense topics, perhaps lobsters can be good for ya”

“in practice it's mostly one moderator running the show and deleting comments they don't like”

“Lobste.rs would be far more interesting to me if by default it did not have the same posts as HN.”

“the moderators and most of the remaining userbase of Lobsters are American political left-progressives”

“Lobsters (previously?) blocked Brave browser and I don't feel like switching browsers just to visit a site.”

“OK, Lobste.rs has some merit, but the problem there is that the community there is arguably still a little too small”

“Mostly HN reposts and extremely limited ability to post there if you don't have Bay Area social circles.”