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Comment by diego_moita | Hacker News Reader

I wish I had a lobste.rs membership now.

Why, it's closed to new members so no one comments. It's not a place to replace reddit. You are better off going to slashdot.. similiar level of conversation as reddit and many more comments and similiar number of daily stories compared to lobste.rs

Suggesting that slashdot has a similar level of conversation to Reddit is deeply depressing regardless of how accurate it might be.

My slashdot ID is six digits. I check in about thrice a year and leave sad.

For me it's like going to a podcast festival. Everybody's a bearded white 40 year old man. They're mostly saying things that make sense but there's an uneasy sense that I've walked into an echo-chamber.

Frankly, I think relatively insular communities are better for the web as a whole. In particular "anybody can invite people, but you're responsible for your invite tree" is a pretty healthy way to foster a community. It ensures a basic level of decency, and a high level of trust.

IMO, the option to deal with invite trees like the other site should be an option everywhere. Some basic moderation tools, like being able to view and ban an entire invite sub-tree should be available for things like Discord servers.

The issue with insular communities is they're insular though, and often by definition exclusionary. The nice part about something like reddit was if I picked up a new hobby, I could reliably find a community for it there. If I take up kayaking, it's unlikely that the insular music BBS I'm on has more than a handful of kayaking enthusiasts on it, and for just a general hobby, I'm not even sure where I'd start on trying to find an insular community for that hobby.

There's many interests I've ended up getting more involved in because I could easily join a subreddit that was about that without much effort, and then over the years, by osmosis, I learned and saw more of it while I was engaging with the other subreddits I was more active on. Smaller communities just don't offer that sort of convenient diversity of interests and experiences.

Slashdot was great, until better discussion forums came along. Going back to Slashdot after more than a decade of old style Reddit would be like scratching my nails down a chalkboard. Unpleasant in many ways.

It's not that hard to get one.

It is probably easy if you know people there. Unfortunately I don’t and neither my German friends (already asked on German IRC etc). It’s hard to find a way into that community if don’t already know English speaking people who are in this niche.

In case anyone has an invite to give, I’d be happy to use it: hn@<nickname>.dev

Got an invite, many thanks for this!

The problem with lobste.rs is that I'm not sure that the people whose opinions I want to read give a shit about jumping the hoops to get a membership, you know what I mean? All the people on it are people who cared enough to be on it.

I could help you there if you'd like.

Lobste.rs always seemed cool. I've been waiting for them to open up for years. But I guess the invite-only nature may be what makes it what it is?

I was a Lobste.rs user for a while, but their admins are very patronizing so I left. One day in 2020, I made several posts (see below) on a variety of topics and because they were all articles or software I had written they couldn't decide if I should be banned, so I left.

Writing Your First PAM Module [c] [unix] (rkeene) - https://lobste.rs/s/qbsk6y

hunter2: Smartcard-based password manager [security] [show] (rkeene) - https://lobste.rs/s/3rufnm

Build CC: Cross-compile build tool [programming] (rkeene) - https://lobste.rs/s/2g4hfh

Simple SAML Identity Provider Framework (IdP) [programming] [security] (rkeene) - https://lobste.rs/s/nrle0e

Roku Reddit [programming] [show] (rkeene) - https://lobste.rs/s/nbxufp

Chrome disables support for mandatory features of HTTPS [rant] [web] (rkeene) - https://lobste.rs/s/shqzk5

HashCache [programming] [show] (rkeene) - https://lobste.rs/s/hq2ckd

sse3-emu [c] [show] (rkeene) - https://lobste.rs/s/xekrci

Defense Enterprise Linux (2011) [linux] [pdf] (rkeene) - https://lobste.rs/s/x5wgwr

pipethread: It is what it does [pdf] [programming] (rkeene) - https://lobste.rs/s/yu5lfw

I'd be interested. What do I need to do?

I've been looking for a lobste.rs invite for some time to, how can I get an invite?

Can you send me one?

14 years on reddit as a user, 16 years reading it... Lobste.rs looks exactly like Reddit did in 2006 or so. I'd love to be back in a space like that.

I'd like one please

I’ve been trying to get one forever, can you help?

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