The HN audience really fascinates me. I can never figure it out. It's supposed to be a place of intelligent discussion on the technology sector but then you get QAnon adjacents hanging here as well. I recently discovered Ars Technica commenters, and that is my crew. It's much closer to the people I have worked with in tech for the last two decades now.

It's very easy to get an account here. In fact, I provided no email, and a password which I forgot. I literally can't log out. But point being is, registration is low effort.

This is good when there's no incentive to come here and troll. Communities like this one will stay sane as long as they're niche and unpopular. Once they become popular... well I think Elon sees with his own eyes what happens on Twitter.