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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.

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      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.

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        Same opinion I have of it, too techbro. Easier to avoid those circles on a federated site.

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          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.

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        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.

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        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

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          I like HN for discovering new blogs, but the comments can be really weird and lots of people seemingly only read the headlines.

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          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.