| Reminder that HN is SV centered and therefore everyone and everything is oriented around tribal group think. Meta was funded by Thiel, yet most of the people in this thread use their products. The CCP has technology that dwarfs Palantir, but a ton of people in this thread use TikTok, because they don't recognize fascism unless it's perpetrated by somebody that looks like the Nazis they see in movies. I grew up around brainwashed religious zealots. I hated it. Everything was this moralistic condemnation and guilt by association game, played by people who had absolutely no sense of perspective and had zero interactions outside of there group think circles. Constantly condemning people they don't know and have never met and don't understand. I've been on HN for 13 years now. It looks more and more like that every day. This comment will be down voted without any substantive critique other than "I guess you're a fascist too." Meanwhile, Discord will not have the slightest tiny drop in user numbers, because nobody outside of this moralistic circle jerk cares. |
Don't such absolute statements (everyone, everything) remind you of religion as well?
> Meta was funded by Thiel, yet most of the people in this thread use their products.
I imagine it might be as true as:
- most people in this thread also using Discord, despite criticizing it and
- most people using Meta criticize its products.
That is, You can use something and criticize it, and it probably happens both with Discord and e.g. Facebook.
> The CCP[…]
I'm happy to see in the political threads there's very often in the very least a significant presence of critique against China and maybe even overwhelming the defenders of the regime.
> I grew up around brainwashed religious zealots. […] moralistic condemnation […] [HN] looks more and more like that every day.
I think it's good religious zealots don't have the monopoly on moralistic condemnation. Just because A is bad, and B has feature x just like A, doesn't mean the feature x is bad.
> Meanwhile, Discord will not have the slightest tiny drop in user numbers, because nobody outside of this moralistic circle jerk cares.
Discord is not going to delete users, and few people care to request their account to be deleted. If Discord asked me to provide ID, I'd probably at least try to resist by not using it and maybe eventually succumb by providing a fake ID - but as far as I know, Discord will just set my account to a teenager mode, so instead of speaking about a drop in user numbers, we should speak about a drop of activity in adult interactions (or interactions/activity in general) on Discord.