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Share interesting Technology news and links.

Rules:

No paywalled sites at all.
News articles has to be recent, not older than 2 weeks (14 days).
No external video links, only native(.mp4,...etc) links under 5 mins.
Post only direct links.

To encourage more original sources and keep this space commercial free as much as I could, the following websites are Blacklisted:

Al Jazeera;
NBC;
CNBC;
Substack;
Tom's Hardware;
ZDNet;
TechSpot;
Ars Technica;
Vox Media outlets(including Axios, due to new changes related to trackers on their website);
Engadget;
TechCrunch;
Gizmodo;
Futurism;
PCWorld;
ComputerWorld;
Mashable;
Hackaday;
WCCFTECH;
Neowin;
Jacobin;
Yahoo;
Freethink;
Big Think;
Newsweek.

More sites will be added to the blacklist as needed.

Encouraged:

Archive links in the body of the post.
Linking to the direct source, instead of linking to an article talking about the source.

Misc:

Relevant Lemmy Communities:

Beehaw Technology discussion.
Hard Tech news.

Share interesting Technology news and links.

Rules:

No paywalled sites at all.
News articles has to be recent, not older than 2 weeks (14 days).
No external video links, only native(.mp4,...etc) links under 5 mins.
Post only direct links.

To encourage more original sources and keep this space commercial free as much as I could, the following websites are Blacklisted:

Al Jazeera;
NBC;
CNBC;
Substack;
Tom's Hardware;
ZDNet;
TechSpot;
Ars Technica;
Vox Media outlets(including Axios, due to new changes related to trackers on their website);
Engadget;
TechCrunch;
Gizmodo;
Futurism;
PCWorld;
ComputerWorld;
Mashable;
Hackaday;
WCCFTECH;
Neowin;
Jacobin;
Yahoo;
Freethink;
Big Think;
Newsweek.

More sites will be added to the blacklist as needed.

Encouraged:

Archive links in the body of the post.
Linking to the direct source, instead of linking to an article talking about the source.

Misc:

Relevant Lemmy Communities:

Beehaw Technology discussion.
Hard Tech news.

Welcome to the nostalgia-filled piefed instance of yesteryear.

Open Registration with Application questionnaire.

If you have a question or comment you can post in !meta@retrofed.com or message @DosDude@retrofed.com or @Die4Ever@retrofed.com

In case of downtime and/or emergency, we will post updates on @DosDude@mastodon.social

Some rules we try to uphold:

Be civil. Bigotry is not welcome. This includes (but is not limited to): transphobia, queerphobia, racism, ageism and ableism. We do not promote hate.
Communities need to be Retro or Retro-adjacent.
Please don't upload pornographic content. (use an external image host for that)

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