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Are there viable alternatives to HN? I'm pretty sick of PG and Altman's influence. They aren't good people.
by 650REDHAIR 2y ago
Are there viable alternatives to HN? I'm pretty sick of PG and Altman's influence.
They aren't good people.
- pkkkzip 2y agoReddit? Not sure why you decided today is the day to move
- 650REDHAIR 2y agoReally? In a thread discussing PG's most recent brain fart you can't understand why today would be the day?
- bowsamic 2y agoProbably because of the blog post that it is a comment to
- dowager_dan99 2y agolots of things reach a breaking point: dams, pollution assimilation, BS jobs, social media sites...
- sedatk 2y agoI stopped using Reddit after the 3rd party app massacre. I don’t even do it out of protest, it’s just I don’t feel like it anymore. I guess that’s how powerful habits are.
- coliveira 2y ago100% agree. They've become a symbol of how money corrupts people.
- diggan 2y ago> They've become a symbol of how money corrupts people Become? I've read at least one of pg's books, and probably 10s of the essays, and even when I first read it (probably close to 2012 sometime) it was evidentially clear he is mostly about money. If the job (VC) didn't make it clear, the essays makes it even clearer. In short, most people involved in the VC/startup ecosystem are mostly about money. They will say they care about other things too, but they mostly say that because they care about money. If there is no way to make money saying/doing a thing, then they won't do that thing.
- dennis_jeeves2 2y ago>how money corrupts people Money just exposes what was latent. Similar goes for power.
- Conlectus 2y agoLobste.rs
- sedatk 2y agoPeople suggesting lobster.rs as an alternative are the Marie Antoinettes of 21st century.
- minimaxir 2y agoPG and Altman don't have editorial influence on Hacker News, and current moderation policy is to not kill topics partaining to YC. (which is why I suspect this blogpost got rescued from being flagkilled)
- diggan 2y agoLobsters probably comes closest. But still invite-only (AFAIK) and you also don't bump into random programming superstars (who programmed that one childhood game you absolutely loved) there every now and then. Besides, I feel like HN is dang's kingdom, and compared to how it used to be, pg is barely mentioned nowadays. Based on feelings only, it doesn't feel like HN skews pg/altman friendly, I'd probably say it's the opposite if I had to say anything.
- graypegg 2y agoYcombinator is of course, involved to some extent with the creation of HN. So I get it. Tech leaders cultism sort of infests the space. But I do tend to find HN pretty broad in topics. I do think they end up on here because they’re good at making news for themselves (not a compliment) and the sort of people posting on here, are posting tech news. I don’t see ending up on HN’s front page as any indicator of goodness, but more so, it’s at least something people are talking about and sparks some discussion, goodness-neutral on the specific topic at hand. dang is really good at his job! That said, I really like mastodon! Obviously it’s a different sort of platform, but you can get a similar but less-tech-thought-leader-centric experience with some light curation. (And participation by yourself!)
- Der_Einzige 2y agoSame but also with Dang.
- ziml77 2y agoWhat influence of theirs are you seeing on HN?
- ulfw 2y agoWith Meta, X and Hackernews right wing American now I am also struggling where to go. Sure it won't be much here or the aforementioned networks anymore.
- kristopolous 2y agosocial media is the television of the internet. it's best to turn it off. I'm starting to.