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HN has become The Establishment, it skews older, and thus is extremely skeptical of any change to the comfortable status quo. It's of course supremely ironic in
by yborg 4y ago
HN has become The Establishment, it skews older, and thus is extremely skeptical of any change to the comfortable status quo. It's of course supremely ironic in a community that (originally) represented the Silicon Valley startup culture of Disrupt Everything.
- thejohnconway 4y ago> Silicon Valley startup culture The answer might lay in that, I guess. Mastodon isn't much of a venture capital opportunity. No startup in the space is likely to return billions.
- drewzero1 4y agoSo true. SV-types have been so conditioned to look for the monetization angle and the fediverse has been designed and built to be the direct opposite of that. I think a lot of people are so busy looking for the fame and the money that they miss the point.