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Why is Hacker News like that? (drewdevault.com)
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[–] WesternInfidels@feddit.online 32 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Years ago, in the early 20-teens, I had posted on HN in protest to some new web property that aimed to tie yet another aspect of life to cell phones. I said something like "I work in software but I still don't have a cell phone, I don't like them, I don't want one, I don't want yet another aspect of modern life to encourage dependence on some subscription service like a phone." Which was all true.

This attracted rather more reaction than anything else I posted on there. The reactions fell into a few categories:

  1. I don't believe you, liar, why would you post this
  2. I have no sympathy for you, loser, go buy a phone
  3. Fuck you

Any illusion I had that the HN people were software-loving geeks like me kind of dissolved after that, and I stopped visiting. I suppose that's exactly what they wanted.