[epolanski]

Their apps and website both keep getting worse and worse.

Reddit is one of those great examples were management and execs all feel like they need to show their impact and justify their salary and just make the platform worse.

Bots and propaganda are literally everywhere. The platform keeps getting worse but I admit it is to some extent addictive.

I am somewhat happy that HN is one of those places where politics are generally avoided.

I am sick of people arguing about geopolitics and national politics like it was some fan battle while not even knowing their mayor candidates programs, hell many don't even know who their mayor is or what their city council is working on.

This stems imho from the dead of traditional newspapers who were often local, in favor of internet media which is in its nature global.

I swear most people in Italy know more about US politics than what's happening in their own backyard, completely backwards.

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I thought the site was getting worse because that's the natural life cycle of image hosts and Reddit decided to become an image host.

HN is avoiding it because somebody else pays to run it and there's zero images or videos.

Also re: politics, stuff the federal government does affects me a lot whereas most local governments seem pretty similar and powerless. If the pendulum can swing so broadly ever 4 years I'd better watch it, right?

[epolanski]

How can the federal government impact you more, when anything from building permits, roads, garbage collection impact your daily life regularly?

The last mayor of my city decided to make the entirety of the fields in front of my house (in Italy, countryside near Rome) buildable and completely ruined the view from my house and filled it with traffic.

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Abortion and trans rights and stuff

[damascus]

> If the pendulum can swing so broadly ever 4 years I'd better watch it, right?

Honest question: If, other than voting every 4 years, you have no ability to impact change, why spend the time watching it? Why not spend the time doing something more constructive that you have the ability to impact? (aside from prior to the election to inform voting, of course)