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Has anyone looked at the correlation between HN top posts and Lobsters? I would occasionally lurk on Lobsters until I realized that the majority of content on L had already been posted on HN first. Private community that's basically an echo chamber of existing community's content... no thanks.

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One person maintains a site that does just that:

https://gerikson.com/hnlo/

For me, even if stuff I'm interested in has already been posted on HN, it often rolls off the front page before I ever see it. The front page there moves more slowly, so there's a greater chance I actually see and discuss it.

It often flows the other way too (speaking from experience with some self-authored posts on Lobsters).

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