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Why is Hacker News like that?
drewdevault.com/blog/Why-is-HN-like-that/Years ago, in the early 20-teens, I had posted on HN in protest to some new web property that aimed to tie yet another aspect of life to cell phones. I said something like “I work in software but I still don’t have a cell phone, I don’t like them, I don’t want one, I don’t want yet another aspect of modern life to encourage dependence on some subscription service like a phone.” Which was all true.
This attracted rather more reaction than anything else I posted on there. The reactions fell into a few categories:
- I don’t believe you, liar, why would you post this
- I have no sympathy for you, loser, go buy a phone
- Fuck you
Any illusion I had that the HN people were software-loving geeks like me kind of dissolved after that, and I stopped visiting. I suppose that’s exactly what they wanted.
Replying to @WesternInfidels@feddit.online
Doesn’t internet require a subscription service?..
Replying to @Lumisal@lemmy.world
My library has free access, as do any number of local business and location. And I once lived in a building that bundled internet/TV service for every resident.
Replying to @isles@infosec.pub
You would weep at the coat the library pays to provide that service. It certainly isn’t cheap. Free…so long as you ignore your taxes.
Replying to @elephantium@lemmy.world
My taxes paying for library Internet is a lot better than my taxes paying to bomb Iranian schoolchildren.
Replying to @Glytch@lemmy.world
Way to miss the point.