Hacker news works because it has a specific perspective. You basically just get the capitalist tech crowd and unapologetically so.
It’s not perfect, but I like that it’s roughly apolitical (as in, free of world events, politics, and X slammed for Y articles). I understand that capitalist tech is inherently political, but it’s not where to go to talk politics.
For general purpose discussion? I don’t think so. The internet being so open and accessible means that the only ways to find more educated discussion on various topics is typically through more specialized websites (like Hacker news for computing), and even then it’s kind of a crap shoot.
I am enjoying lemmy, but is there an intellectual powerhouse anymore?
and why is it Hacker news?
Neither are intellectual powerhouses because collectively speaking … humanity is not an intellectual powerhouse
Case and point.
fAiR pOiNT
Hacker news works because it has a specific perspective. You basically just get the capitalist tech crowd and unapologetically so.
It’s not perfect, but I like that it’s roughly apolitical (as in, free of world events, politics, and X slammed for Y articles). I understand that capitalist tech is inherently political, but it’s not where to go to talk politics.
https://tildes.net/ is a candidate. Though I like it better here for the memes and the music.
For general purpose discussion? I don’t think so. The internet being so open and accessible means that the only ways to find more educated discussion on various topics is typically through more specialized websites (like Hacker news for computing), and even then it’s kind of a crap shoot.