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Replacing the front derailleur on my road bike and recompiling my desktop kernel with a patch so my mouse works in 4.18, woo-hoo.
Replacing the front derailleur on my road bike and recompiling my desktop kernel with a patch so my mouse works in 4.18, woo-hoo.
I’m only new but the lack of political posts and NYT click-bait articles is nice compared to HN.
I have noticed that a lot of content that is highly upvoted on reddit and sometimes hacker news is a very bait-y headline but when you click through to the article there isn’t any actual information or facts and often the title is a massive misinterpretation of what actually happened. For example there was news a few days ago that Mapbox was “Hacked” when what is almost certainly the case is someone just renamed a city in the OSM editor. It’s like calling wikipedia hacked when someone changes an article to an ASCII dick. Problem is the article will be highly upvoted and shared because saying something was hacked is more interesting and shocking.
Watched site after site ruined by political nonsense/virtue signaling/buzzfeed top 10s as I fled to greener pastures. Slashdot, digg, Reddit, HN and others. It’s human nature. Combination of internet point euphoria and tribalism.
That seems to be the way of every good website. Starts out with a core group of good members and starts to grow as more and more people find out about this place where all the good content is. The problem is, to keep the content above average quality, you have to keep the member base above average. And an above average member base can’t be the general public because then it would be average, which compared to this place is pretty low. Maybe the invite system will prevent the userbase growing too quickly, or maybe it will not. The thing that seems certain is that there will always be a place where high quality content and discussion is shared even if it isn’t this website, there will be new websites just as good.