[viccis]

I've had a similar idea before, though a bit less optimistic, which is that the people on the internet back then (of which I was one) were a tiny fraction of the population filtered for their nerdy love of promising new tech. It's entirely possible that there's another community type or service that's popular right now among a small nerdy group of people who love new tech that I am not privy to because I am now older and more burned out and less prone to chasing after cool new things.

[fsflover]

> It's entirely possible that there's another community type or service that's popular right now among a small nerdy group of people who love new tech

Something like https://wiby.me or https://geti2p.net? Or even some servers of Mastodon like https://fosstodon.org/.

[sameerds]

Come on, it can't be that bad! If such small nerdy groups existed, what are the chances that their membership does not overlap with places like HN? It would only be a matter of time before we heard about them.

> I am now older and more burned out and less prone to chasing after cool new things.

Yeah, mostly true for me too. I hear about cool new things, but rarely choose to chase after them.

[BoingBoomTschak]

People having lived through one or more eternal Septembers are the reason you don't hear about them much. And also because there are few such places that haven't succumbed to the mainstream politics mind virus.