Comment by jdaw0

i'm really disappointed with the twitter alternatives. i thought one might feel like early twitter before the culture war takeover, but bsky and mastodon are just left wing hugbox versions of the same thing. threads is nothing but brands, E-list "celebrities" and "influencers" out for a buck. i've even gotten desperate enough to try substack notes, but it's just a tacked-on halfass feature. is there really no choice but to fight the hackernews ui to find technical discussions on interesting topics?