The ascendancy of Hacker News and gentrification of geek news communities (2008)

discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=238723, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=250507

cf. "The Gentrification of the Internet" (2019), https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19897696

and 'social gentrification' as described independently in the context of Twitter in 2012, 4chan in 2016, and Reddit in 2022: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=social%20gentrification&sort=b...