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The Revolution Will Not Make the Hacker News Front Page

(with apologies to Gil Scott-Heron) If you get all of your important technology news from "content aggregators" like Hacker News, Lobste.rs, and most subreddits, you might be totally unaware of the important but boring infrastructure work happening largely on the Fediverse, indie web, and other less-centralized communities. This is no accident. The rough consensus of these spaces has been strongly in favor of the…

http://soatok.blog/2025/12/17/the-revolution-will-not-make-the-hacker-news-front-page/

The Revolution Will Not Make the Hacker News Front Page - Dhole Moments

(with apologies to Gil Scott-Heron) If you get all of your important technology news from “content aggregators” like Hacker News, Lobste.rs, and most subreddits, you might be totally un…

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Soatok Dreamseeker Dec 18

Haha, someone tried to be funny and submitted it to Hacker News.

Too bad it won't work. I'm pretty sure my blog's domain is shadowbanned. ;P

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Cursed Silicon Dec 18

@soatok Marcan and jwz screaming "HOW DO I GET MINE BANNED"

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Not a Spring Onion Dec 18

@CursedSilicon @soatok

Step 1: Post your blog on Hacker News.
Step 2: Wait for the inevitable "Wait, isn't that the crypto blog with the furry content?"
Step 3: Reply with "No, it's a furry blog with crypto content."
Step 4: Banned.

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Cursed Silicon Dec 18

@wakame @soatok Shout out to the guy *literally a couple days ago* who made a brand new account and used it to try and link an archived Kiwifarms page about Marcan (of Asahi Linux fame) as "evidence he's a weirdo"

That whole site is fucking atrocious

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rootnode

@CursedSilicon my fav was this week. A reply on the orange site:

“Jetbrains seems a bit lost these days. Look at that very recent screw up [0].
I thought about moving after 10+ years when they abandoned the commit modal, and jacked up the plan prices, but I barely understand how to commit things in Vscode anyway. Let's see in 2026.”

They can’t even use git within VS code. That’s how far they have fallen.