• agent_flounder@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    I think it would help define it or give examples of what it is or isn’t intended to include. Should it include biotech, materials tech, or is it limited to computers, Internet, AI? Or…?

    Technology to me includes things like papyrus and typewriters and the above and much more. But what I expect to see in a technology community is narrower than that.

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      1 year ago

      Typewriters are technology, but information about what color of shoes is being worn by the guy who bought the typewriter patent from its inventor isn’t technology.

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        1 year ago

        …but that’s what happens when you call a community “technology”. Its a pretty damn broad category and these days, incredibly mainstream.

        Communities like " technology" are going to be as mainstream as they were on Reddit. There is nothing you can do about it unless you convince the mods to spend 14 hours a day curating and removing posts from people with mainstream definitions.

        If you want a more curated definition, or you have more niche interests, then you probably want to go to a different community. Heck, maybe start your own. Be the change you want to see.

        It seems a bit silly to go to a community called “technology” and then complain that it represents what 90% of technology news sources are talking about.