However, it's tough going, against the relentless reddit meme-spam and nitpickers who only care about being right instead of discussing ideas. I have now quit all other forms of social media except HN, and is a truly sad state of affairs that a large part of a generation has isolated itself from discussing and developing ideas, as they are sucked in by the addictive and shallow nature of social media.
Thanks for nothing, big tech.
8 years of basically no engagement from me (maybe 30 karma points) I call someone out and bam I'm getting downvoted to kingdom come but at the same time being gilded with silver. It just didn't make sense.
HN has so far been nothing but amazing conversations and it will hopefully stay like this. Big Tech played the PR game and won, PR is what makes a unicorn startup not so much the startup's product these days.
That tells me that there's both sides reading it, just one is larger. Isn't the goal to preventing an echo chamber having both sides expressing themselves?
Unfortunately I cannot find it but ultimately it was not a debate, it was a classic teen response 'yeah but what have you done about it?!!?'. No value add and definitely nothing worth replying with.
This I completely agree with. I've have many hobbies in my early years that were considered weird of just not in line with what my friends liked. Having a chat to learn more and dig deeper was amazing to do.
But there's debating and then there's just flat out teenager responses. I honestly don't mind having a debate or conversation but the lack of insight and knowledge only provides you with lacklustre meme attacks.
Once we can manage our emotions and misinterpretation of text then we can start debating in a healthy fashion.