I joined 2016, but was reading already years before and honestly I feel HN went downhill from tolerant forum with civil discussion to place where anything again

I joined 2016, but was reading already years before and honestly I feel HN went downhill from tolerant forum with civil discussion to place where anything against HN hivemind (not that different from most of US companies which vastly support Demoracts with their donations) is downvoted into oblivion. You call those comments "conspiracy comments", I call them comments with alternative views and as we learned through the pandemic, the people banning and downvoting the "conspiracy theorists" (who were actually spreading facts/truth) were in the wrong and they still can't admit their mistake and it's same thing with anything political. You question why would be Russia firing rocket at Polish farm - bam, conspiracy theorists, Russian troll! Next day, oh well, shit happenes, Ukraine just made mistake, let's forget about it and let's forget about those conspiracy theorists from day above, but let's keep their downvotes so they won't dare to spread their opinion. I'd prefer if HN went back to technical topics away from political nonsense which has hardly anything to do with technology. I especially don't like the raising amount of self/metaposts like these with questions how you spend your free time, how long is your... and other teenage topics, which is quite surprising considering recent poll where vast majority of users should be above 25-30, so one would expect certain level of maturity.