Hackernews is a VC-funded website for techbros who want to feel like they're cool and smarty hackers. It has an even higher percentage of know-it-alls than reddit. MBAs who got into it for the money.

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 1 points 8 hours ago

This is the second creator that has talked about HN recently. Its strange!

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 43 points 19 hours ago

I gave two conference talks this year. In fursuit.

If that isn't a flex I don't know what is

[–] zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I don't think I'd lump lobste.rs in with hackernews, as it has always been basically a mostly sane alternative to hackernews.

[–] Soatok@pawb.social 4 points 12 hours ago

Until the mods randomly decide to censor you, like they did with my post about tech companies disrespecting user consent.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 19 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Earlier this week, I announced the immediate availability of a reference implementation for the Public Key Directory–a project I’ve been working on since June 2024. Hundreds of people shared it on Mastodon and BlueSky. Comparatively, almost nobody on Hacker News ever saw it.

I'll admit I missed this despite it being posted in !technology@lemmy.world. Lumping Masto and Bluesky together here is weird though given the Masto post got 300+ boosts while the Blusky post got 25 reposts.

[–] Soatok@pawb.social 12 points 18 hours ago

Oh, fair. I just remember getting a LOT of notifications from both apps. I didn't check the exact ratio,

[–] DarkSirrush@piefed.ca 4 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Its shocking how many people want to push the "mastodon is a dead platform, bluesky is the future".

[–] Imaginary_Stand4909@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I mean, Bluesky is essentially a Twitter replacement, so it's not like many people are going to be on there for tech/FOSS news. Every user on Mastodon knows what the Fediverse is, which means they're disproportionately more likely to care about FOSS and tech, therefore they're gonna spread the word more. Especially since most Fediverse users know the negatives of being on centralized social media, so they won't make a Bluesky account because they have a Fediverse account that will never be stuck on a enshittified platform. Therefore all the tech nerds are here instead of Bluesky anyway.

We have tech nerds. We don't have celebrities and "hit tweets"/jokes/memes that are getting screenshotted and dispersed to millions. Which is both a positive, but also a negative. Fediverse could do with more silly "hit tweets" (toots? posts.) that encourage people to join. ~~I just want fanartists personally~~

[–] DarkSirrush@piefed.ca 1 points 10 hours ago

~~Upvoted for the striked out portion~~

That is fair, though my comment was more because everyone I have talked to IRL that knows about mastodon thinks its a dead platform, because people they know that use bluesky have told them as much.

[–] optissima@lemmy.ml 8 points 18 hours ago

Will it make the Hack-A-Day blog tho