I like metaphors. I respect a good “run with a metaphor” post. But I feel like if you have to explain the metaphor this much during the post it’s not worth it
I work in a lab which researches regenerative medicine and people often talk about how we are saving lives.
But at the end of the day, it’s not what we are doing that is pushing the needle, its projects like this make existing healthcare accessible for everybody. I want to get a PhD in something related to this at some point. You guys are so insanely cool.
Everyone I actually enjoyed following is on there. Someone once posted that the best part of Bluesky is that you scroll until you reach the end of the new posts from users you follow, then once you reach the end of new content you stop and go do something else for a while. Bluesky not attempting to be a infinite dopamine is a feature in the best interest of the users
Exactly. The best replacement for Twitter/Reddit/etc. isn't any single option, it's your favorite of the new options plus a mindset of being less online, not needing a replacement for how important those used to be.
Maybe it’s fine if you treat Bluesky as a way to follow just a few trusted people. But that could also be an echo chamber. I was surprised, however, by how many vile comments I saw regarding Charlie Kirk’s death. To me as an outsider to its culture, it looks just like Reddit. So “sectarian” feels right.
I use blue sky exclusively over Twitter and in my experience the condolences about kirks death out numbered the vile posts at least 10 to 1. In general the worst I saw were posts lamenting his death by violence while also noting his bigotry and love for guns.
I didn't care much for it as it seemed that anything other than a left-leaning anti-american view was complexly absent and unwelcome. I kind of miss the google circles thing... it was much easier to separate technical or career vs personal vs political.
I had a very different experience - I saw very few gloating comments, and those were vastly outweighed by comments saying we don't know, nobody deserves this, violence isn't the answer, political violence spirals.
About the worst I saw were, in essence, saying this is bad, but those who live by the sword, die by the sword, which is a biblical thing.
Why is Bluesky an echo chamber but X, Rumble, Gab, Gettr are not? I bet there's huge vile "damn leftists" commentary there, even though we don't know who shot Kirk or why. Why isn't that an echo chamber?
> Why is Bluesky an echo chamber but X, Rumble, Gab, Gettr are not? I bet there's huge vile "damn leftists" commentary there, even though we don't know who shot Kirk or why. Why isn't that an echo chamber?
I have not even heard of some of those. So I am not saying that they aren’t echo chambers either. But given the reputation for civil discourse that blue sky has, I was surprised to see a lot of comments that were saying disgusting things in thinly coded ways.
It seems logical that people who like it keep using it, while people who don't like it stop. I've seen several people right here on HN say they stopped using it for various reasons, so I don't suppose he's making it up.
Interesting that there roughly 700K daily posters but only 390K followers. I have no idea what other social media numbers are but having ~2x the posters as followers doesn't seem like a sign of health to me.
Bluesky looks to go up then fall back to about half of it's peak. It has the look of a consistently used platform that slowly rolls off users but maintains a solid base.
Clubhouse went to the moon then died over a 6 month period. Bluesky would need to drop another 2/3 of it's active users 6 months ago if you wanted your statement to match your data. Bluesky isn't growing exponentially, and is not falling catastrophically. Not a good comparison.
I see a slight decline of around 15% after the initial surge followed by relatively stable activity. It must be easy to manipulate someone who sees stats through such warped glasses. They are playing you like a fiddle. Or maybe you're just trying to bias other folks.
No, it's down posts year over year, which I wouldn't have believed was possible if it hadn't happened. It's got half as much post traffic as its peak(s), which were on exactly the days that Trump was elected and inaugurated.
It's basically what Truth Social would be if it didn't even have Trump.
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edit: it's not the fault of the technology, it's the fault of the awful company. They represent people strongly aligned with the Democratic Party, but with no power in the Democratic Party, and their philosophy has been stated over and over again: if you don't agree with whatever we believe today, we don't even want your support, or want you here, or want you to be employed. A lot of conservatives would add "they also don't want us to be alive."
The worst part is that they're all upper-middle class, and when as the Gini coefficient goes up with the right-wingers they're locking into power by being so repulsive, they'll just get wealthier and wealthier and more self-righteous.
I've been suspecting for years that there's a lot of botted support for the dumbest most out of touch liberals that is paid for by conservatives. I don't meet people like this in real life, and I am very left-wing. The liberals I meet are generally humble and thoughtful (if in love with their television sets.)
The inability to interact with (or even view) people outside of party affiliation is moving the overton window to the right all on its own. We're not going to be able to correct until we can reject this mindset entirely.
I'm sure Thiel is more than happy to take advantage of this.
Can you elucidate what you're saying? Keep in mind, I live in a state where Republican US Senators Dave McCormick and his predecessor Pat Tooney are famous for ignoring their constituents' calls and generally not making themselves available. I would love to interact with them, but they won't allow it. I imagine PA is not unique in this regard...
Meaning that seeing each other through partisan terms mostly serves the right wing of this country. Certainly while both parties primarily serve the interests of their donors.
Look at HN - if you express something even a taste conservative, you will absolutely be downvoted.
Which is ultimately just silencing the messenger; the very behavior that backfires... sometimes figuratively, yesterday literally. You'd think free speech advocates would be smarter than to ever use the downvote button on a legitimate opinion, seems like a contradiction.
Edit, for the reply: > "Post a far left soundbite opinion like 'all consumption is unethical under capitalism' and you will get downvoted just as handily as 'I wasn't hired because I'm white'"
This is actually a bad example, because we just got Ames vs Ohio, eliminating the higher burden of proof that white individuals needed to present when claiming discrimination 9-0. As such, there is a possibility that complaint was factual and is going to be proven soon, where the other is purely ideological.
Edit 2: Nice undocumented edit to make it a "trans employee" instead. You've just openly admitted you would've downvoted a legitimate opinion by claiming it was illegitimate, then edited your comment afterwards to fix the weakness, proving my original point.
There are plenty of conservative and right leaning people here with strong opinions that don't get downvoted. They tend to stick to traditional conservative principles that are backed by rational thought and actual work and research.
Populist ideas, un-backed propaganda and blind followership of both the right and the left are not popular here.
Post a far left soundbite opinion like "all consumption is unethical under capitalism" and you will get downvoted just as handily as "I wasn't hired because they needed a trans employee".
For disclosure: I did change white to trans employee approximately ~90 seconds after the original post, and not in response to his edit (I did not see OPs edit until now, 1 hour after the original post). The sentence he is so upset about is meant as an illustrative example of an inflammatory viewpoint. It appears from the inflammation that my point was well made. Thank you.
For those wondering, I changed "I wasn't hired because I'm white" to what it reads above. My reason for the change was to make the statement absurdly inflammatory, and not subject to the exact sort of irrelevant (irrelevant to the point being made, that is) debate that OP is trying to force. If you look at my comment history you will see that I edit almost all of my comments. I have the bad habit of proofreading after posting, and editing for clarity. Not trying to do a "gotcha" because the point I am making is still logically identical.
If you want, substitute it for the completely unbacked "litterboxes in schools" right wing meme, and the point still stands. The point being: HN tolerates many viewpoints across the spectrum. HN does not tolerate stupid, and especially when it is stupid wrapped in culture war bottom scrapings. That is what will get you downvoted.
I’m still processing that this is the Ycombinator cofounder. It’s not a good thing or a bad thing - although tbh it’s better this person founded Ycombinator than say, a nepo baby which is always what I had kind of assumed. But the idea that the cofounder of Ycombinator didn’t discover their ambition until after undergrad is going to take a bit for my brain to absorb.
> didn’t discover their ambition until after undergrad
I mixed with a lot of very ambitious people at university, some had a clear plan of how to exercise their ambition, not all of those plans worked as intended, many had ambition with no specific plan at that time other than to learn a breadth of useful knowledge, make good connections, take on early work with great networking potential .. and then pivot when they had a better handle on the world as it was at that time a year or three after graduation.
Ambition to succeed doesn't have to come with a specific predetermined path on how to succeed .. there's still room to adapt and morph as one moves forward.
Blogs like these remind me of the time I was riding my scooter without a helmet. A lady in a wheelchair yelled “wear a helmet it’s how I ended up in this chair”
It’s funny that they lead with AI tools. I love zed because it’s fast, customizable, has a clean interface and it’s easy to pair program. The LLM bit is just an annoying thing I shut off because imo I’m too junior at the moment to use LLMs
I was interested in zed as I was looking for a performant VSCode replacement, but its inability to fully remove AI integration and disable the prominent sign-in button made me lose any interest. Judging by the project’s response or lack of it on these topics, I am worried about adopting zed in my workflows.
Its a small button in the top right corner. Very oit of the way unless interacted with. I use zed because its faster and cleaner than vscode. I dont want AI in my editor.
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