First of all can I even call this a sub? What is it?

My question for us to collectively decide overtime is: will this be HN[0] or Lobsters[1] with lefties, or will is just be about China vs US consumer tech news? I personally would like to see the former because those sites can be fun (aka a yuge time sink) until you read the dogshit takes in the comments. I hope this place encourages real discussion including but not limited to GNU/Linux distro wars, the BSDs, mpv[2], languages, webdev, security, cyberpunk, cypherpunk, hating on OOP, free software (besides rms), Emacs[3] vs Vi[4] and God's True Language™ Lisp. You know, the good stuff.

I guess we will all find out the direction this place will take together. To a bright future shitposting together, comrades!

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/ [1] https://lobste.rs/ [2] https://mpv.io/ [3] https://gnu.org/s/emacs [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Editor_war

  • shyamalamadingdong [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Honestly I still like HN for the content, even though the comments can often become techbro lib(/ertarian) central quite easily. That said, even the comments can be pretty great most of the time.