Thomas Bayes would say that the population of people who hate Facebook is really big and the population of people who are scrupulous about whether or not their comments are specific to the matter at hand is relatively small

First time here?

Unfortunately there are a few topics that short circuit some terminally only people. One of them being anything related to meta. Few others recently emerging is Flock or Musk. It's really exhausting since you can't have a discussion relating to anything that may be adjacent to said topics. It's like a black hole.

Certain topics bring out the hidden Reddit inside.

It's trendy to hate on Meta just like it's trendy to handwave on Apple.

One can do no right regardless, the other can do no wrong.

At least in HN.

virtue signalling?

This is par for the course, HN is far worse than reddit on balance, especially involving upvoting/downvoting decorum.

Go vibecode something to auto upvote all downvoted posts, call it "Antiechochamber.HN" or something, and if enough people used it this website might improve a bit.