Hey everyone. Just wanted to do a post to pin in the community just to enforce the difference between c/tech and c/technology more since there’s been more and more rule breaking posts popping up and I don’t want to put more work on maintaining here since there’s no dedicated mod team for it atm
This is a community oriented towards underlying tech so for new things happening in the tech world as opposed to misc legislation and company news
Examples of posts that fit here
- Wi-Fi 8 will bring reliability rather than greater speed
- App that translates speech to sign language in real-time wins top innovation prize
- FDA approves breakthrough eye drops that fix near vision without glasses
- We hacked into a bowling alley computer | The Serial Port
- Scientists Make First Mechanical Qubit
- New version of the PNG image standard released
Examples of posts that do not (and should go into c/technology instead)
- Atlassian moved 4 million Postgres databases to AWS Aurora
- Verizon Announces CEO Transition
- Tailwind Labs Cuts 75% Engineers: AI Kills CSS Tools
- Architecting Consent for AI: Deceptive Patterns in Firefox Link Preview
Since it wasn’t being enforced as much some older rule breaking posts are still up but things should be getting enforced more from now on (if something sneaks through and gets large with no presence in the other communities I can leave it up but ideally it would go into c/technology instead)
If someone wants to mod this community feel free to let me know since it doesn’t have a mod team atm
Thank you.
Sadly, the financial world has trained much of the population to think “technology” means “anything vaguely related to computers or businesses that use them”. As a result, various technology communities are flooded with uninteresting posts that really belong in stock market and business news categories. (This drove me away from the one on lemmy.world.)
I wonder if naming this one c/technologies instead of c/tech would make the difference more clear, and intuitively encourage staying on topic.
that probably would make things more confusing since it would sound even closer to c/technology. You also cant rename communities so it would have to be remade if any name change occured which would lose all the current posts, etc.
I don’t think I agree about it being more confusing than “tech”, since the latter has become nearly synonymous with “tech stocks” and “consumer electronics” in popular news and media. The word itself invites more of the problem.
Fair point about the lack of renaming.
