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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.

This is not debate club. Unless it’s amusing debate.

For actually-good tech, you want our NotAwfulTech community

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This is an infrequent sub for Silicon Valley dumbassery, Sam Altman or Paul Graham or HN reactionaries or the rest of the spawn of the Californian Ideology who aren't actually the LessWrongers.

Originally an offshoot from SneerClub, created due to off-topic orange-sitery.

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[–] fasterandworse@awful.systems 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@self@awful.systems @dgerard@awful.systems

You've come a long way!

[–] self@awful.systems 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

the SneerClub diaspora[1] grows! something about federation seems to be driving engagement in a much more positive direction than Reddit ever did

[1] sneersphere?

[–] earthquake@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

something about federation seems to be driving engagement in a much more positive direction than Reddit ever did

Probably a lot of equalizing being done by drivers-by browsing "all". Techtakes and sneerclub could still shake out back to the old ratios if/when things calm down and "all" gets captured by less niche subs. Or maybe not.

[–] fasterandworse@awful.systems 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wasn't on the subreddit, did it get upvote counts that high?

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 3 points 1 year ago

not even slightly, techtakes was a tiny backwater sub that basically never took off.

[–] bigiain@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I miss n-gate. I hope whoever they were is doing OK...

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 2 points 1 year ago

they're not reading HN, which is an excellent start on doing OK

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 1 points 1 year ago

I think they are, they just got tired of covering the same old crap.