[dougmwne]

Hacker News is a better social internet. So are niche subreddits and discords. Trying to build a big tent for millions and billions is a dead end. There's almost nothing relevant to all of us collectively, nothing interesting and really meaningful anyway. Attempts to build that global collective culture have failed. It's all a bunch of existential screaming into the void.

Human communication and meaning-making needs to happen on a smaller level. A few hundred people with common values and ideas. People who share something with each other. The social internet is a great place to explore a common niche interest, but pretty much toxic sludge for anything else.