Hacker News is a case study in what inevitably happens to “apolitical” spaces. Politics and society are bifurcating, and Hacker News is taking the fork on the right. “Apolitical” is an excuse to favor the status quo, a resistance to change, and therefore a re-enforcement of the existing biases and power structures of society. It’s no surprise that Hacker News favors capitalism, opposes labor, and objects to questioning the privileges of its largely white, male, middle-class audience. It’s “political” and “ideological” for it to do anything else.

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I used to read it regularly, until I became more interested in the Fediverse for getting my tech news.

One of the first red flags for me was when I encountered unmoderated Trumpist transphobia in the comments. I was like "this is not what I would expect from this space".

I also don't think it was accidental. At another instance, a relatively well known blogger who is trans was discussed. I carefully read the whole thread, and they were all avoiding to gender her correctly, by either misgendering her or deliberately using "the author".

This is sufficient evidence that people over there are utter shit.

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