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Why is Hacker News like that?

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  1. baddie_twoshoes · · focus · HN ↗
    This is almost comically backwards. HN is very pro-union, like reddit. In fact, it's pretty much the same users and political opinions as reddit.

    It's funny he mentioned the grok discussion. The other day I saw grok got some new release, and although I don't use it, I was curious whether it is any good, and was pleasantly surprised people were actually discussing it and not all running to the keyboard to see who could get their EM comments in first. Like they really cleaned up the place.

    This article complains that all their political comments got removed for calling Elon 'fascist', 'nazi' etc. - yes, that's the point; your useless, political opinions nobody else wants to hear, get removed.

    The article is practically a meme, using every buzzword imaginable. Racism, sexism, nazi, hate, bigotry, wokeness, etc., they're all there. The person who wrote this article is practically an NPC.

    1. jmyeet · · focus · HN ↗
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      1. econ · · focus · HN ↗
        I see a futuristics ban on twitter where the reason stated was that user got grok to say something obvious.

        Like Facebook (but worse) they barely allow users to interact. The primary goal is to build profiles for other purposes.

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