"cesspool" is pretty overboard. Have you read virtually any other site lately?

It's obviously subjective, but I have a feeling this community has descended into hardcore cynicism and cheap meta analysis of most article I care about. Maybe it's the times we live in.

I barely spend much time in the comment sections nowadays - once I stopped visiting this website I started following a bunch of makers on youtube and printables, and got looped into some discord groups and meetups. It was a breath of fresh air - would definitely recommend.

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majorchord an hour ago | parent [-]

Phoronix is so much worse... but in general I think it's mostly a problem with older tech "experts". They have developed a jaded, egotistical world view where only their own opinions can matter, and everyone else is wrong.

	▲	handwarmers 34 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I never spent much time there but I have heard people say that. A part of me worries that I might have become the old "get off my lawn" type of person in some ways. I just don't relate to a lot of the upvoted content here, so instead of singing my soul trying to make sense of things, I moved on. Perhaps it's not my place to be any more. These new places I have joined are much easier for me to talk in, and there are no upvotes/downvotes so people tend to be pretty chill and genuine, even if it causes friction sometimes.
	▲	tekla 15 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> They have developed a jaded, egotistical world view where only their own opinions can matter, and everyone else is wrong. That describes HN