Ask HN: Will HN survive Reddit imploding? I was thinking to myself that HN might end up taking in some Reddit Refugees in the next few weeks/months. Then I saw this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36236023 Is this potentially the end for HN as we know it? |
I don't think the average reddit user will see HN as a replacement.
The original Reddit would never be allowed to exist today, nor would those folks want to use it.
So the questions on what gets censored would be endless unless the answer is nothing gets censored (but again, people wouldn’t accept that).
Let’s say a new Reddit spawns. Are the same tech crowds responsible for the moderating of Covid, trump insurrection, Russian misinformation, stuff gonna accept all that again? What about holocaust denial? Remember r/ni**s, how it survived for years and years with nothing positive to show. The examples are endless, so unless people are willing to stomach it all, what’s the point of switching?
Imagine reading RFC discussions but needing to skip every 3rd comment because it's just a pun.