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I cannot believe how people are praising a centralized, heavily censored links site. Take a look at HN's privacy policy, they sure do make money from monetizing every single thing you say and also fingerprint you all the time. We should have a decentralized link sharing site

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Centralised and heavily censored, yes, but AFAICT the censoring by-and-large respects free speech and diversity of opinion, while effectively stopping spam / abuse, and thus maintaining the high quality of content that keeps us all coming back.

And surely HN is way less monetised (and therefore way more trustworthy) than virtually every other links site / every social media platform out there?

Depends on what you consider "monetization." Are there ads? Not explicitly, but YC startups do advertise themselves in threads here, and aspiring entrepreneurs do use visibility on HN (both to users and YC) as part of their strategy. If you think this is just a forum of nerds engaging in organic conversation and intellectual diversion, you'd be mistaken. Your attention is currency here as much as anywhere.

Lemmy or Mastodon, depending on how you want to do it.

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