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Comment by nicolashahn | Hacker News Reader

lobste.rs is basically HN without the politics.

Although it began that way, that's 100% inaccurate today. Most threads have low noise with high civility. The biggest, meta debates are about whether politics should be included or about a politically-incorrect topic/comment. The last debate had the voting majority, the politically-correct folks, push for every thread to allow for making political points or calling people out. Which they do here and there with debates following.

Most of the time it's chill, though. Just pointing out that it has a specific, political leaning that readers here may like, not like, or not care one way or the other.

"The last debate had the voting majority, the politically-correct folks, push for every thread to allow for making political points or calling people out."

It'd be interesting to have a reddit/HN type comment threading but allow users to flag their own comments as political in nature or not, and also let users decide whether they'd like to see political discussion (account/Subreddit basis, with a toggle at the top of all posts).

Whether or not to allow political discussions is one of the more common tricky points in these forums it seems.

So is it becoming impossible to have an interesting site without politics? Makes sense because some people are determined to introduce it wherever they go, there's always a way to do it and no good way to avoid it. Specially when there's a karma system that enables the up/downvotes wars.

tildes.net is similar in that it’s good but it does have politics

Yeah, tildes is definitely a cool space.

Any chance I could grab an invite code from one of you guys? Interested in this, looks like a cool place.

Sent you one via your contact form.

Sadly its invite only and I know nobody with an invite. If anyone fancies throwing one my way it'd be appreciated.

The hand them out on their subreddit. Took me three minutes from posting to getting an invite from one of the owners of tildes

Thanks

(Tildes is my site)

You (and anyone else) are welcome to email me for an invite. It's not intended to be difficult to get one, I just want to keep it under control and avoid any giant floods of users/bots.

Please read the announcement post for some general info about the site's goals, and the info for requesting an invite is in there: https://blog.tildes.net/announcing-tildes

Very interested in getting in on taht when it starts opening up. To me there's a crisis of credibility in modern media, especially social media - contributors are so ephemerial and pseudonymous, it's too easy for sockpuppets, bots, paid posters, etc. to masquerade as journalists and average citizens.

A system that focuses on exclusivity and controlling who has the algorithmic equivalent of credibility on their platform is very interesting to me.

yeah it’s been working pretty well and it’s been almost a year. the only thing it needs really is more users.

I would also love to be able to visit this place if anyone has a spare invite, thanks!

I always liked the look of lobste.rs but never knew anyone active there who could invite me (I've spent the last few years working at tiny startups and haven't spent nearly enough time networking with others outside my immediate circle).

what's your email?

hey do you mind inviting me too? email in my profile.

Sent you an invite

USER=dave

PLUS=hn

DOMAIN=davebarker

TLD=xyz

EMAIL=$USER+$PLUS@$DOMAIN.$TLD

Thank you very much!

sent

Much appreciated! (I've not seen it come through yet but I'll keep an eye out for it).

you should have received it. tried another invite.

Thanks man seen the invite.

It seems like you are shadow banned. I vouched for your comments here but like, other people might not see your future comments.

I know I am going to sound greedy and stupid, but here’s me anyways entc dot engineer at gmail dot com.

invited

Thanks

Hi there! I'd also appreciate an invite. Email is in my website.

invited

Awesome! Thanks!

May I also ask for an invitation? My mail is my current pseudo on HN followed by @riseup.net

Thank you by advance. Regards.

Sent

Hi ,

It would be great if you could provide me an invite as well. I do not know anybody there hence unable to join the community. My email id is methusala8 at gmail dot com

Sent.

Hey! Do you mind sending me one too, if you have any left? :)

---- Thank you very much. :) ---

Email?

I think you already got me :) That's why I took it out.

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