Hacker News is Reddit with a nuclear downvote button and tone policing. It's not that much better in terms of "dead internet," the bots are just more eloquent.

Hacker News is Reddit with a nuclear downvote button and tone policing. It's not that much better in terms of "dead internet," the bots are just more eloquent. In some ways the HN flavor of gamified engagement actively encourages worse outcomes than Reddit.