[GenericDev]

Hacker News discourse is of a much higher quality than any other social media website.

That said, the priorities of the community is frustrating as a lot of it's driven by venture capital and money. I know it's Hacker News, but that doesn't change the point that in order to participate in a higher level of discourse I have to tolerate a bunch of capitalist stans.

The community also has a profoundly noticable difficulty with empathy for people outside of tech.

The community also loves to self-congratulate itself for how much better they are than other communities while still having their own issues.

There are other aspects as well like when people are talking about X but then commenters chime in and start taking about Y or Z, and say it's so much better and completely go off course.

Lastly I cannot emphasize how much I hate the articles that make it to the top where they say "X is bad" only to try and sell me on a solution. I'm getting quite sick of that as well.

Again, the discourse is great and I love it. But I still think this community suffers.