A crowd of people continually rooting against their best interests isn't exactly what's needed for the solidarity that people claim is a boon from social media. Its not as bad as other websites out there, but I've see these flags several times on older forums.

It won't be as hard as you think for HN to slip into the very thing they mock Instagram of today for being.

Or maybe they differ on the opinions of what their own best interests are, which aren't yours by definition.

Uh huh, that's always how it starts. "Well you're in the minority, majority prevails".

Yup, story of my life. I have on fact had a dozen different times where I chose not to jump off the cliff with peers. How little I realized back then how rare that quality is.

But you got your answer, feel free to follow the crowd. I already have migrations ready. Again, not my first time.