My biggest frustration with most link aggregator communities, or even most things is that they inevitably end up serving the lowest common denominator of knowle

My biggest frustration with most link aggregator communities, or even most things is that they inevitably end up serving the lowest common denominator of knowledge. I don’t think I need to spell out the mechanisms for it. Hackernews has been pretty stellar in this regard as the lowest common denominator is pretty high. Some technical links send me on a backtracking journey until I get to a topic I actually know which eventually allows me to understand the original link. I’m not sure if this is a problem which could be solved somehow. It’s debatable if it’s even a problem. The reality is that anything “advanced” is also niche by definition.