Comment by ffsm8
16 hours ago
I call it the redditification of HN. The trend has been massively increased with Corona, and now post AI it's essentially the norm.
People can't even discuss about any politics anymore.
Back in Obama's days there were always interesting discussions in the political threads and they were rarely insta flagged. And it was mostly nuances wrt business needs and what that means for our societies. The PRISM news also frequently got heated, and still stayed somewhat technical.
Extremely noticable compared to the platform it is today.
Tbf though, HN always had a few topics it was extremely irrational about.
Eg Apple since the start and Musk post 2012...
> I call it the redditification of HN.
As one of the users that moved to HN when Reddit closed access to third party apps it’s also quite literally this. I apologize for any reduction in quality of discourse I might have caused.
What made you want to move over? Are you just desperate for a venue to talk, desperate enough that if your venue of choice changes its API you'll go to another place with other norms?