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It's not so bad if you subscribe to a small number of narrow focus sub-reddits, like hard science, C++, Math, etc.
by biohacker42 17y ago
It's not so bad if you subscribe to a small number of narrow focus sub-reddits, like hard science, C++, Math, etc.
- tptacek 17y agoWhich creates hard science and C++ reddit communities at the expense of a general reddit community ("reddit" is an epithet here), when the general HN vibe is the reason many of us are here.
- biohacker42 17y ago"At the expense of" is an interesting way of putting it, aren't we all here specifically because HN is more exclusive with a more select group of users? Aren't exclusivity and selectivity the very goals we seek? And isn't HN becoming truly popular and thus generic and shallow exactly what we seek to prevent?