Ask HN: Does anyone else feel like staying off HN for a bit?

The topics and quality of discussion have really changed over the past week and I'm not that interested in more free speech flame wars or questions like "Would decentralised distributed git-blockchain replace twitter and save us from tyranny if Trump pushed one block to it?"

Anyone else feel in a similar way? How are you dealing with this?

If always is 2 months, you comment only confirms the curtness that has increased.

I agree with OP that the quality on HN has decreased recently, both stories and comments. This has been a progression over several years from my perspective.

I'm reading books and listening to long-form podcasts on the consumption side. Writing more is actually helping the most.

This whole thing reminds of the 4 stages of change:

- denial: our capitalistic democratic ways work: we're not China!

- resistance: oh no, FAANG control our lives, we must fight back!

- exploration: what if mastodon blockchain webRTC could save us?

- acceptance: something must be done, X is something, therefore it must be done!

We're currently on the third step. I'd love for there to be a rational, coherent solution for the last step, but I don't have much faith that the for-karma collective in HN is going to agree to stop nitpicking, let alone come up with a remotely workable solution.

Expect to see technology startups claiming to solve the problem without understanding its human aspect, big tech growing more powerful on the back of cacophonous social media "engagement", and China's dominance in the world increasing as the rest of the world becomes less and less able to manufacture anything. That's what the fourth stage is going to be, if things keep going the way they have been.

I do, but like most social media sites, I simply cannot quit.