alt Hacker NewsIs there a thriving tumblr tech community, anything similar to HN on tumblr?
Most penises: HN (but I guess it's my fault for saying there is a filter) followed by b3ta.com and twitter
- Most swastikas: twitter and, somehow, HN.
I expected better from HN :/
Someone once told me that HN is like 4chan but for tech people & I defended a lot against it but now I feel like seeing an overlap between HN,twitter,4chan
> - Most unexpected source of traffic: substack
How much traffic did you get out of substack?
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Neo-Nazi recruitment has been running free on Twitter since Musk takeover, and a lot of technology communication also happens there.
I wouldn’t expect tech folks to be more susceptible by nature, they just hang out in these spaces and are exposed to the content more than average.
Being tech savvy doesn’t make you immune to the recruitment tactics.
Yeah, I too had probably an idealized image of HN - but I guess what makes the HN great is the moderation :)
And it's not like there are no beautiful horses being drawn - I observed quite a few ingenious horses and non-horses coming in in the last hours. But I'm surprised at the level of.. carelessness.
One way of dealing with it would be training a penis-drawing-recognition ai and only show other penis drawings to people who draw dicks. Though it would go against the whole idea of, well, having a moment together.
Substack traffic is hard to quantify, at least for me as I am only looking at HTTP referrers, and I had the feeling the referrer field was mostly filtered out. It is comparable to facebook and mastodon traffic, both in volume and in the sense that it is a slow burn - the link gets share in a small community, and then gets shared a few days later in a different one. In contrast to tumblr, HN and bluesky, where a spike in traffic comes sudden, a cultural moment is shared by many thousands of people, and then the attention mostly disappears the next day.