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Ask HN: Social Network for Engineers?

by devchris10 on 6/22/20, 12:32 PM with 23 comments

• by comment12 on 6/22/20, 1:35 PM

  http://teamblind.com/ is a strong anonymous network but enter at your own risk

• by dpeck on 6/22/20, 12:48 PM

  That is what github is heading towards.

• by muzani on 6/23/20, 4:46 AM

  I try to use social media to improve myself. Which means improving others and writing something up to be criticized.

  But social media is used mostly for "personal branding" these days, which is someone writing material consistently, several times a week, to make themselves look good. There is no genuine discussion - it's either praise or putting people down. You end up with arguments on why concatenation is stupid and how template literals are the only way to do things.

  DEV.to is a nice implementation of a social network though. Github was good until it became a resume item, after which a lot of fake/flexing behavior started to appear. Codepen is also nice if you're into CSS and programmer art.

• by blizkreeg on 6/24/20, 2:59 AM

  I’m very interested in building an anonymous social n/w or community where you share what you’re currently working on/solving —- while being careful not to disclose confidential stuff. There’s so much interesting discussion that can happen around it.

• by sevengraff on 6/22/20, 3:24 PM

  I think fosstodon.org is trying to be a social network for tech people, but it federates a lot of non tech stuff, so it's a mixed bag in that regard. I recently joined it so still figuring it out, social media isn't my strong suit.

• by karmakaze on 6/23/20, 3:57 AM

  What would one do there that isn't already covered by HN or a subreddit?

• by sagunsh on 6/22/20, 5:15 PM

  I enjoy devrant.com