| I seldom post here nowadays and have been visiting the site for quite a while. A major change I observe is that, unfortunately, a lot of political stuff finds place on the front page. In the past something that is likely to appear on the front page of the BBC would not appear here and it was mostly tech and startup stuff (barring the odd thing that would pique curiosity but that too I categorise under' tech'). Anything else was rare. Also, over time, it seems to have become acceptable to show mild disrespect in communication - pasting LLM output as their own messages, leaving punctuation out (all lowercase messages), reddit meme like messages (this one not as often as the others). I think some charm the place had is lost and it has become more utilitarian - or more of a hustler's place than a curious mind's place. EDIT: Forgot another important one: clickbait headlines are more accepted now. In fact, the lack of integrity seems to be a badge of honour sometimes: "if you didn't regret the click, I don't regret baiting it", I recall someone saying here. I say all this in comparison to earlier. |
I think something very serious is happening in the US right one, and it's increasingly hard for our community to just pretend it doesn't exist.