[haunter]

>The question is, am I missing out on anything if I only visit HN?

Yes, HN is an echo chamber like any other community. The more time you spend here you can see that. Especially if you follow the site with RSS where dead and flagged submissions are also archived, comments there usually paint a better picture about the whole site (ie see the echo chamber part)

My favorite is the minimum 20 point submissions feed. Those usually have enough traction already. Now I don't open every single link but if you find any dead/removed and/or flagged submissions from those then that's where the people usually goes against the hivemind/content guideline of the site. YET it already gained enough points so should be an interesting one https://hnrss.org/newest?points=20