So I had never heard of lobsters, and just checked its front page and a couple of comments and ... is it Stockholm syndrome to say I prefer the HN design / look and feel?

And is it unfair to lobsters to say the posts all seem very very familiar? Just asking as one is always worried about missing out on the next great thing, but the HN niche seems pretty well filled?

Lobste.rs is a curated, invite-only site where you can get banned if anyone you invite (or anyone they invite) causes problems, because those relationships are graphed. Every new member is a burden and every post a potential risk. Obviously, such a community would self-select for safe, uncontroversial content, and tend towards reposting things which have proven uncontroversial elsewhere.

That said, I personally prefer their layout to HN, it maintains simplicity while allowing for a better feature set.

So I am hostage to my friends comments, or only people with bad judgement invite others?

Sounds odd to punish the inviter

Obviously, you'll be fine if you only invite the right sort of people, and you'll be better if you never invite anyone at all.

A community run on the premise that the Eternal September effect must be avoided at any cost, inevitably, will come to see new membership as toxic.

Hello,

If you are interested in lobste.rs invitations send me an email with your "keybase profile" and at least 1 public network identification that will let me know that you're not a self-destructive troll and I'll be happy to help you.

UPDATE: Since I received a lot more emails than I thought and it's time consuming, my offer stands for another 24 hours.

regards

As keybase is an invite only alpha system right now this flagged in my mind as a decently disguised advert. Seems interesting but can you really require someone to have a profile on an invite only system?

Anything that can prove that you are a adequate for lobste.rs community and not a troll will do. Keybase offers a quick way to identify someone. I know it's not perfect, but my time is limited. However, feel free to drop an email and that I'll see what I can do.

ps. I'm not affiliated with 'keybase' in any way.

>Keybase offers a quick way to identify someone.

Could someone please explain this statement? I know Keybase is a way for people to publish public keys, but is there any cost for a troll to create an account on Keybase with a pseudonym? Does creating a Keybase account require a lot of un-automatable steps or a waiting period or something?

Fair enough, like I say it just flagged up being as keybase is in invite-only alpha. My mistake!

Looks interesting, and an invite would be nice :) Unfortunately I have so far not seen the need to do anything with keybase.io - that is not an official requirement, is it?

This looks interesting. Can anyone send me an invite

More about me. http://blog.harshillodhi.co.in/about-me/

Could you kindly send me an invitation? I'm on Twitter as @enedil1

I was going to offer an invitation, but I don't know you, and I cannot get enough information about you to ascertain that you are not going to be an unpleasant fellow.

How about this: tell me what you think about women in science and technology. That is an important question to me.

Ok. I'll try to describe my point of view as detailed as I can - you shall know I'm not an Anglo-saxon, but a Pole. So, coming to the real question:

Looking at women and science - I know some great woman that were succesful in science. I can note one. I don't know if she would be pleased, so I'll refer to her only with name. So, her name is Zosia. She is going to represent Poland at International Olympiad of Astronomy and Astrophysics. She is also a very timid person. And what I want to say - I really like working with her. Not to say I'm an astronome (cause I'm not), but every single piece of work in class is really enyoing. And only because of her traits of charactere and knowledge. What was that example for? To point out that working in science with women is not really different that work with men who are on some intellectual level that I can accept.

I must say, that women in technology are a rare fration of the spectrum (at least in Poland). Since I'm 17, I have not really worked in a real environment full of various people. However, what I can thing of this affair is that being to work well is working without looking at gender of co-workers.

Maybe, if you'd like to ask me some others questions, I could answer. I really like issues from cognitive theory, formal logic and pure Maths.

Cheers! And I hope you can believe I'm a human being!

Good enough for me. I'll send you an invite shortly. Send me your email address to [email protected]

I lolled. You can't be serious, right?

No, I am absolutely serious. If you're going to be an asshole about women, I don't want you in Lobsters. We already have enough of those elsewhere.

> And you need an invite to post iirc.

To me, this is a (major) downside. Among other reasons: I'd want a website where people like me felt welcome. And I know that for me, personally, I do not feel welcome at any site that didn't even allow me to join.

Interesting choice of the domain!

As a guy born in Serbia, I have to say that this is the first creative domain I saw with .rs extension.

I have followed lobste.rs for a while but am not a member - do you have an invite to spare?

Lobster is really cool, could I get an invite?

...could I have an invite please? =)

could I get an invite plz?