X Is Elon Musk's Lonely Party Now

[jrflowers]

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2023/12/x-is-elon-musks-lonely-party-now/676977/

[amadeuspagel]

HN is more and more becoming like a twitter alternative in the sense that people are constantly talking about twitter.

[ggm → amadeuspagel]

I don't understand the logic. Because we talk about things.. we become them? What's the causative element?

[catach → ggm]

Took me another read, but I think the assertion is that a strong characteristic of twitter alternatives is that they talk about twitter a great deal. And so that's a common thread between twitter alternatives and HN.

[ggm → catach]

It's in the rules for HN that it's a passive (not passive aggressive) variant of fight club: we don't talk about HN because .. it's boring to get meta about HN.

[dirtyhippiefree → ggm]

That’s how science gets flagged here and Twitter can’t help but appear.

“But it’s technology!”

“But we don’t discuss HN publicly.”