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I think this is an intermittent state produced by a multi-year process of exodus from public communities into tightly vetted private communities, specifically d
by sinenomine 4y ago
I think this is an intermittent state produced by a multi-year process of exodus from public communities into tightly vetted private communities, specifically discords.
Also there is an obvious generational dynamics with HN being avoided by smart zoomers having better communities to fit into.
Maybe it's not terminal.
- lampshades 4y agoThis is my thought as well. I’ve been here since 2013 and at this point we’re just a bunch of old (and often grouchy) people. Going the way of slashdot.
- cykros 4y agoI'd sure hope we'd at least be mostly made up of folks that'd at least have the decency to go to IRC, if not self hosted Matrix servers. If we're flocking to Discords, we really HAVE fallen a long way...