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Anyone else notice they are they getting downvote more often on the 'orange site' (for those who use it) or reddit or are getting much more negative pushback than usual? Or antagonism? I have at least. I am not referring to here. I think a lot of people are having a bad time, are struggling, and this is manifested in the form of increased anger online. It cannot be blamed on Covid anymore, as that was years ago, but it seems worse now than shortly after and during the pandemic.
Somewhat related. I've noticed that the quality of hackernews discussion has decreased in the last year.
There are a lot more Communist teenager vibes now then there used to be, and I'm afraid its heading down the same path as Reddit with left-wing politics drowning out everything else, even topics completely unrelated to politics.
I think the tech has been lefty for a long time now. The whole thing that techbros are somehow "libertarian" is bullshit (well, excepting maybe rare few exceptions, I am talking about the majority trends). It's just that they had this new thing going and didn't want the old guard to intervene and mess up the game, so they were all "freedom" and stuff. But now they already got their thing established and entrenched, they have no use for freedom anymore, but they have a lot of use for corporate welfare and regulatory barriers of entry. Plus a lot of them are as woke as one can get after spending significant time on academic campus. A lot of them have access to a lot of money, but that changes surprisingly little.
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