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Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen by whisperingByte on Saturday January 03, 2026 @09:46AM (#46477257)
I need you to know that the discussion on this news on Reddit today was the last straw for me, there is no nuance. It’s just simple minded left, and right. I asked ChatGPT to help me find a site that might have more intelligent discussion more nuance, and this was the very first comment I saw after I registered my account and I literally let a sigh of a relief. Thank you.
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Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen by Sprotch on Saturday January 03, 2026 @09:58AM (#46477410)
Yep - Reddit is unfortunately now where the simpletons hang out. This is far better, you can have intelligent debates
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Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen by jennyholzer3 on Saturday January 03, 2026 @10:24AM (#46477706)
The people and LLMs that use this website are as numb-skulled, illiterate, and misanthropic as the people and LLMs that use reddit; In fact, these are the same people and the same LLMs.
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Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen by llmslave2 on Saturday January 03, 2026 @05:11PM (#46482242)
Yep, only real difference is Redditors now know they aren't smart or special, people here haven't figured that out yet.
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Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen by llmslave2 on Saturday January 03, 2026 @05:11PM (#46482231)
There isn't really much difference between here and Reddit. Especially on political topics, you get the same tired and defeated arguments and opinions over and over again.
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Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen by komali2 on Saturday January 03, 2026 @09:59PM (#46484368)
To an extent yes, but individually I have much more nuanced interactions here with users. Whereas on Reddit I get dog piled by hundreds of black and white thinkers all circle jerking each other, making identical replies to my comments.

Here I often will get a deep thread with one user that's quite interesting, even if we disagree in many ways. It's also usually polite for the most part.

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Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen by jacquesm on Sunday January 04, 2026 @05:02AM (#46486562)
That's why I'm so happy HN has resisted the call to allow people to post images. You get the occasional link to that stick figure site but other than that posting here requires some minimal effort. Rate limiting all posters might be another way to increase the signal to noise ratio.
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Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen by 0xDEAFBEAD on Sunday January 04, 2026 @01:15AM (#46485467)
reddit is simply on another level though. See Paul Graham's concept of the "aggressively conventional-minded": https://paulgraham.com/conformism.html
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Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen by Sprotch on Sunday January 04, 2026 @03:11AM (#46485992)
Thanks for this - Graham hits the nail on the head
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Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen by jacquesm on Sunday January 04, 2026 @05:00AM (#46486551)
But with every redditor that moves here the difference is getting smaller.
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Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen by 0xDEAFBEAD on Sunday January 04, 2026 @01:12AM (#46485453)
Substack is another good platform for nuanced discussions. The Notes feature is a bit like Twitter but with +20 IQ points. Literally the first post that popped up when I opened the app:

https://substack.com/@jaysophalkalyan/note/c-194741864?

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