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For me personally, two things:

1) Just switching to the new thing because any forum of communication that's been around long enough and becomes big enough becomes corrupted and infiltrated and ruined and HN seems to be at that tipping point.

2) 50-75% of the stuff on HN now is just political/social propaganda (posts about Musk, Boeing, Taxes, Unions, Homelessness, Trump, etc etc etc) and there's no way to filter it out, I just want to read tech stuff.

Even if a source of information is "perfect" (heavy emphasis on quotation marks), it's always good to have other good sources.

I'm not implying HN is perfect. I'm hoping OP will indicate how specifically they find it lacking, which would probably inform suggestions I or others might make.

get rid of karma, its a kiddys game

In what way(s) does karma distort HN's dynamics?

You can easily ignore it, karma doesn't really affect anything.