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Interesting comments by pg on that thread, he said he felt like he was on reddit when reading HN even way back 15 years ago.
by satvikpendem 1y ago
Interesting comments by pg on that thread, he said he felt like he was on reddit when reading HN even way back 15 years ago.
- armchairhacker 1y agoNowadays, popular Reddit has devolved into such a dumpster fire, even saying "HN is better than Reddit" is practically insulting HN.
- krapp 1y agoThere's a reason complaining that HN is "turning into Reddit" is a "semi-noob illusion as old as the hills." People show up here expecting a community far more erudite , intellectually and technically deep and separated from popular culture than they find, and when disillusion sets in they interpret this as a degradation of the culture. Also in a culture that eschews humor and common sentiment the way HN often does (in order to not "be like Reddit") hostility, misanthropy and cynicism become intellectual virtue signals.
- lmm 1y agoHN is always where Reddit was about 3 years ago, the criticism that the comments here are turning into Reddit is true and accurate, it's just that Reddit is a moving target.
- Karrot_Kream 1y agoThe fact that each big Reddit controversy brings a wave of people from Reddit to here is a pretty big factor.