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465 points bookofjoe | 3 comments | 15 Jul 25 14:51 UTC | HN request time: 0.632s | source

I would very much like to enjoy HN the way I did years ago, as a place where I'd discover things that I never otherwise would have come across.

The increasing AI/LLM domination of the site has made it much less appealing to me.

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Lerc ◴[15 Jul 25 15:10 UTC] No.44571964[source]▶

>>44571740 (OP) #

I have seen this question asked on subreddits, Not about AI, but for other topics that some people dislike.

They always seem to take the form of "Should we divide this group into A and B, A stays here and B goes over there and that way everybody is happy"

Invariably the person who proposes this wants to remain in group A and will not be a participant in group B.

To me this seems like the subtext is "Those people are not welcome here, they are not like us. It's not like we have anything against them, we just don't want them ramming it down our throats"

Anyone is free to make a website with whatever content they want, they can invite people to it and grow your own community. Directing a community to divide to remove an element you dislike is an attempt to appropriate the established community.

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1. bluefirebrand ◴[15 Jul 25 15:17 UTC] No.44572047[source]▶

>>44571964 #

> To me this seems like the subtext is "Those people are not welcome here, they are not like us. It's not like we have anything against them, we just don't want them ramming it down our throats"

It could just as easily be "I don't feel like there is a place here for me anymore and I wish I had another place to go"

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2. Lerc ◴[15 Jul 25 15:24 UTC] No.44572147[source]▶

>>44572047 (TP) #

In my experience that is not what people mean.

People with that sentiment ask about what alternative places exist, some of them make their own places.

My post above mentioned something I notice on Reddit. I hardly ever visit Reddit these days. It doesn't really feel like the place for me now. I am not posting this comment on Reddit.

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3. bluefirebrand ◴[15 Jul 25 17:06 UTC] No.44573413[source]▶

>>44572147 #

> People with that sentiment ask about what alternative places exist, some of them make their own places

I don't think that's overall very true

Most of those people are just lonely and isolated, and that's a big part of why we are living in what people are calling a "loneliness epidemic"

It's easier than ever to make a new niche area. It's more difficult than ever to get your niche area discovered by others, because you are drowned out by the noise

It feels quite hopeless for many people in my experience

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