Re:/r/antiwork: A tragedy of sanewashing and social gentrifi...
by mgh2 on Monday February 07, 2022 @12:42PM
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Reddit (or any social network for that matter) was never meant to attract the same quality crowd and comments as HN.
Social networks, in their design, are destined to degrade over time no matter how much technology is used, because it is a refection of the collective corrupt human nature.
HN is not a social network and hopefully stays that way. The slight degradation you see might be due to COVID, where people flooded online in general. But you can still find great content because its core community and function remain fundamentally the same since inception.
Note: I mainly use HN as a information filter and research tool.
Social networks, in their design, are destined to degrade over time no matter how much technology is used, because it is a refection of the collective corrupt human nature.
I thought Linkedin was an exception until https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30215033
HN is not a social network and hopefully stays that way. The slight degradation you see might be due to COVID, where people flooded online in general. But you can still find great content because its core community and function remain fundamentally the same since inception.
Note: I mainly use HN as a information filter and research tool.