[muzani]

Yes, there's a strong echo chamber effect. Also the community is heavily leaning towards SF/USA.

There's some major news where I live about floods, which was predicted by climate change experts. There's a short term effect - helping flood victims, and long term - deciding how to deal with climate change in our backyard. Mainstream media is blaming drainage, but Twitter has actual experts with data and modeling, who point out that no amount of drainage is going to stop certain cities from being underwater in 30 years.

On top of that, HN shows mostly news today and you'll miss on more important news of the week, month, quarter, and so on.

I've been stalking certain people on HN and only then did I notice news that were actually relevant to me. Such as certain deaths that I really care about, the opioid epidemic, Omicron, these things that are actually personal or actionable.

You can also do what I do and find a good friend who talks about these things. People are great news aggregators too, and they want someone to gossip to.