| ▲ | haunter 4 hours ago | |
I also see that and I'd say around Covid / past-Covid. More people became terminally online in those 6-12 months, like another eternal September. Funnily you will always see some people waving the HN guidelines [1] flag: nooooo, don’t compare this site to Reddit. Yet there is another „rule” in the guidelines about politics being off-topic… which is the biggest symptom of HN turning into Reddit: General, especially US domestic, politics became excessively acceptable to be posted here. That wasn’t the case 10 years ago or more. Of course if you point that out then the „everything is politics” crowd will show up and the „should we close our eyes and ears to all the tragedies happening in the world”. Rinse and repeat. That’s the problem with ambigous rules and to some extent why I still prefer Reddit. If you don’t like it you make a new sub, find another one etc. At least the bias is clearly known | ||