[whafalloon]

there is no hive mind, there is no “it”. there are individuals, and all of us have our own minds.

your collectivism is a misapplied abstraction leaking reality at every seam

[jcora]

Lmao

'Individuals' on HN (or 20-something CS guy from the U.S.) and their 'unique opinions' are so fucking similar and revolve around a couple of basic platitudes and ideologems

Pretty much anything that isn't a specific technical subject is totally boring and predictable on HN

Also your last sentence is painfully cringey to read

[leetcrew]

idk how you could not notice that any voting-based link aggregator or comment section has a hive mind effect.

[asfasgasg]

Communities are things. Just because they are made up of individuals does not mean they lack group properties and tendencies. Saying that would be like claiming a glass of water can't have surface tension because it's made up of individual atoms.