The internet's “town square” is dead

Re:The internet's “town square” is dead by poplet on Sunday July 09, 2023 @07:33PM (#36660193)

It was not mistakes... Next thing you'll say will be that HN's crowd isn't very left leaning?

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Re:The internet's “town square” is dead by foxes on Monday July 10, 2023 @01:50AM (#36662575)

Lol, realistically it really isn't. The fact that there are plenty of complaints about muh leftist censorship is pretty indicative.

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Re:The internet's “town square” is dead by WHYLEE1991 on Monday July 10, 2023 @09:34AM (#36666191)

yeah this site has WAY more in common with 4chan's political leanings than say...the comment section of like metafilter or something.

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Re:The internet's “town square” is dead by btreecat on Monday July 10, 2023 @06:24AM (#36664294)

The saying is reality has a liberal bias...

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Re:The internet's “town square” is dead by jscipione on Monday July 10, 2023 @10:17AM (#36666821)

In reality gender is binary and immutable, and I could give a dozen more examples but I won’t because there is no need. No so-called liberals do not believe in reality but religious dogma, and only the political right live in reality.

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Re:The internet's “town square” is dead by dang on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @02:48PM (#36685535)

"Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents."

"Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Re:The internet's “town square” is dead by uni_rule on Monday July 10, 2023 @01:35PM (#36669833)

To me it still reads that more libertarian than anything else.

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