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this post was submitted on 29 Jul 2023
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Really hard to care about a niche social network like this if it isn’t federated, honestly. Far as I’m concerned it could go the exact same way as Hacker News or Reddit.
What happened to Hacker News? It doesn't appear to have changed, though I haven't used it in years. It was always a bit too techbro for me.
Same opinion I have of it, too techbro. Easier to avoid those circles on a federated site.
It’s literally the tech bro news site, though, by design. This criticism is ridiculous. YCombinator is the organization that funds so many Silicon Valley tech dreams.
It's not a criticism. It just wasn't to my taste.
Its still alive and well. Its generally less memey and focuses on a higher quality of discourse. Its a different environment that can still be fun but its definitely brainier. Nothing wrong with engaging intelligent people, it makes you smarter.
Any more info on what is meant by the Hacker News comment?
Some people (granted, I remember reading this on Reddit) consider Hacker News to be full of right wing chuds. I personally just found it to be pretty full of techbros and programmers who were weirdly up themselves the last few times I tried to use it. r/programmingcirclejerk was basically all Hacker News comments lol
I like HN for discovering new blogs, but the comments can be really weird and lots of people seemingly only read the headlines.
I like Hacker News for discussion about bleeding edge tech, but that's about it. I don't contribute anymore because I don't see much point (plenty of high quality discussion by the time I get there).
There's certainly weird comments, but I understand where they're coming from and can usually tune out the stuff I dislike. Then again, I'm probably politically/philosophically closer to that group than I am to the people here (I consider myself a libertarian paternalist [i.e. the book nudge], so a little left of the US Libertarian Party). But I spend most of my time here because the topics are more varied and the discussion often feels more authentic.
I wanna know about this Hacker News comment too. What do you mean?