Why new Technology community?
In my humble opinion, none of the existing Technology communities had achieved optimal moderation + fit home server for the community.
To achieve the optimal mix here, moderation would need to be kept to the minimum (Remove non appropriate, spam, bots and off-topic replies and posts) to encourage discussions, as long as it’s related to technology and to have it on tech related server.
More importantly, I am trying also my best to keep this technology space commercial free. In my opinion, commercial news organisations don’t have anything to do with tech news reporting.
Initially, I will be the only mod till I can appoint other trusted mods.
Hopefully, this community will grow beyond me as a mod and the philosophy behind it will be developed and adapted to other communities as well.
I will take the community members feedback, if any major change or issue happened.
Hopefully, I made my case here about why I think my community is important and how it’s aiming to differentiate itself from the other technology communities.
If you found a flaw in the rules or the philosophy, please point it out in the comments.
Erm !tech@programming.dev exists and does a fine job at doing what other tech communities doesn’t.
I don’t think so.
I honestly don’t see a niche in which a new community fits. Surely it would be better to help moderate the existing community. Trust me, Lemmy has enough Technology communities.
Definitely agree
Eh, I thought different moderation philosophies were allowed, and as far as I know excluding commercial news is different from the rest given I avoid most tech communities because of all the tech-related-but-not-about-the-tech-itself articles. But my avoidance also means I have not touched every tech community, so if there is one that shares this moderation philosophy I get it.