𝐩fᵣCurious how fedi feels about Hacker News 🤔
mx. dove@libredove can you elaborate?
Hayley @libredove @pfr "hacker" "news"
@libredove I generally don't read the comments. Maybe that's why I can tolerate it. Maybe I'm doing it wrong (or right)
René SeindalNever went there, but I've heard of more people leaving there than going.
Terence Eden@pfr mixed. Usually some good an nuanced discussions on tech. Wide variety of opinions though. Surprisingly left leaning at times (my highest rated comment is about getting people to join a Trade Union).
Mostly well moderated - better than most boards.
Skewed very positively to the "we made an app gosh aren't we clever" demographic, but latterly is a lot more skeptical.
Mostly well moderated - better than most boards.
Skewed very positively to the "we made an app gosh aren't we clever" demographic, but latterly is a lot more skeptical.
@Edent thanks for that insight. I've not been a regular visitor myself, I've been subscribed to lobster.rs for the past few years, which I love. But I've recently revisited HN, and besides the numerous articles about AI products which many have strong opinions about, it seems quite balanced.
@pfr lobsters is nice - although a bit quiet at times.
cyberjunkie@pfr AIAIAIAIIAAIAIAIAIAIIAIAAI
🤮
@cyberjunkie yeah, I noticed a number of articles about LLM related products, but I didn't feel it was in any way unbalanced in favour of AI.
I'm beginning to feel like I might be in an echo chamber here on Mastodon given the staunch anti-AI sentiment.
I'm not a huge fan of AI myself, but I'm less of a fan of echo chambers.
@cyberjunkie you've got some sympathy over there it seems..
Simon Walters@pfr Yep - I don't know why that is but you see a lot of people being negative about it
Simon Dassow@pfr Never understood it. Seems to target newbies and techbros. Sometimes worth making popcorn tho.
The Psychotic Network Ferret
Morgan@pfr My personal experience is that it's run by a bunch of techbros and vulture capitalists, and they heavily censored the comments whenever anyone was critical of the VC sphere, crypto/AI stuff, and patriarchy in general. They (the owners) claimed to be FOSS friendly but their moderation of the site proved otherwise. I quit visiting there many years ago so it may be better now.
I did try to get an invitation to lobste.rs a while back as it seems to be more FOSS friendly, but I was told I wasn't important enough/smart enough to get an invite since I'm not a software developer.
@kaidenshi I'm actually offended for you that someone had the nerve to say that to you. If you would like in invite send me a PM with your email address and I'll hook you up 🙂
it was so long ago I forgot who I asked for the invite from. Thanks for the offer!
Kemotep 
🔰@pfr one of the most heavily moderated sites on the internet full of people who complain about how the internet is too moderated.
But in all seriousness the Orange Site is where I have found really interesting articles, blogs, and topics. It’s a bubble of mostly techbros so despite most discussions these days being ridiculous, it’s a good way to get out of my bubble and see alternative views without having to like use 4chan. It’s getting less and less worth it to visit though.
Joel P.@pfr It's the only site I've seen active discussions on gut bacteria 😂 Seriously. I think this shows that the techbro archetype often dominates.
I do value some topics near the edge of HN's bubble. For example, you'll find good discussions on topics about the BSDs if you catch it early enough before the Linux crowd starts to dominate.