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@phil
What happened to HN? Not snarky; serious question. If one of the most interesting sites on the web can fall victim to widespread cynicism and pessimism, how can we avoid the same thing happening here in the future? See also: Reddit. https://i.imgur.com/83bOv7K.png
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@phil
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33402254
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@crypt
not new https://i.imgur.com/GqYO2F1.jpg
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@sam
Someone should make a time capsule HN that goes 10, 15 years in the past and shows how much better comparatively the discourse was. It was shockingly good.
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David Karp's theory when building Tumblr was no comments only upvoting (hearts) was the key to a positive community. It worked.
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How is this not a legit POV based on what Elon has put Twitter employees through over the last 6 months? I agree HN sucks but developers being pissed that a man child can bat them around like a plaything sounds pretty normal to me
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HN has always been notorious for believing they’re special geniuses & all else ahead of the game are somehow wrong & on the precipice of failure. It’s easy to sound smart by being a critic & tearing others down, hard to build against headwinds & succeed so their nature of criticality is sustained by occasional fail
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@rubinovitz
This is one of the problems with not curating your platform well/“free speech”. If you don’t downrank posts like this on your platform, it is no longer free for positive people to post on the platform. Its cognitively expensive to deal with negativity and bullshit. So you will rarely find tech optimists on HN
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@les
my guess: digital communities need space (can’t crowding so many “identities” into the same room of 1 party) The core of the web3 design space is giving digital communities much needed space, 1-10k collections, token-gating, etc. Space hopefully will create new fondness. Actually…
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HN has been toxic for a while, I stopped reading it because of the rapid decline in quality of commens, like 3-4 years ago
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I’m not sure I understand the obsession to protect free speech, at least not the way it’s framed today. You should be able to say what you think and challenge people’s thoughts but what’s the value in spreading blatantly wrong info or sharing hateful content? We can protect the former without allowing the latte
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Humm, what about building a HN alternative based on Farcaster protocol, I know there have been some attempts using Lens.
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@daes
I don’t think we can, it’s the lifecycle of every social platform
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It has something to do with the way in which engagement is rewarded right? It would be dope if somehow people just voluntarily decided to not reward bad behavior with engagement and instead just ignored it into extinction.
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