Comment by avaer
9 hours ago
There was a time when web meant sharing your hobbies with supportive anonymous strangers, a time when crypto meant doing clever things with numbers.
In my experience you can pretty much always bet on greed, money, and psychopathy to ruin anything that reaches beyond Dunbar's number.
It's sad when your playground gets overrun by drug lords (metaphorically speaking); I don't really have an answer to that. It's my central trauma.
I found Mastodon, feels like usenet in about 1993.
There are odd corners of the web that still work on RSS, and just have people sharing stuff.
But yeah, the entire of mainstream internet discourse can be safely ignored.
HN, though, I still like it here :)