Hacker News Reader

In this case many FOSS projects that depend on it will just not update because of license incompatibility.

LGPL is compatible even closed source. From https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-not-lgpl.html (and be sure to check the title of the page)

"using the Lesser GPL permits use of the library in proprietary programs"

so it's going to be OK even in BSD and other permissive licenses.