Following the reddit fiasco, I’ve been looking for other communities to get tech news from. I was active on HN a long time ago but it’s been a hot minute, and I left because the politics were pretty bad; lots of free speech maximalists who loved to just ask questions, especially about queer people.
Is it better now? Worse? Just different?
I don’t care much for Orange Site, but what marcan (of Asahi Linux) wrote recently seems to agree with your experience:
I do think the speculation about what insidious hacks he used for the red text on Asahi Linux blog that showed up only for HN submitters was pretty hilarious.
the insidious hack
visitedattribute on a link to the HN submission page