Absolutely. Its funny when people on HN unironically claim this site to be a tiny miraculous exception.
The app would be banned within a few seconds and 90% of people here would celebrate it.
Majority of people assume the following:
1. Men don't deserve to have private spaces
2. Men can't be victims of abuse (sexual, physical or else)
3. Men don't need to be protected from toxic relationships
4. Women don't need to ask men for consent
Men here refers to all men, including trans men, homosexuals, bisexuals, heterosexuals, etc.
Perhaps, it's time that we have an honest discussion about the realities of living in the world as a man in 2025.
If you're reading this and find my comment in bad taste, or that it frustrates you, I highly encourage that you take sometimes and introspect as to why you feel that way.
Worse than that, if you speak against any of the nonsense coming to you, you are extra bad. And they are surprised that fertility has fallen all over the place, seems like intended objective to me.
Its not perfect of course, neither am I.
But centering your ideological bubble is its own form of toxicity that is enabled by the internet.
Such as? Are any of those disagreements ideological?
If that all sounds too non-spicy, well, even mentioning the smaller things like JS vs TS on a mainstream Reddit page got people calling me a moron and my comment hidden because the score got too low. If I said it on a different page, maybe it would've been +100 score and everyone disagreeing with me booted instead, but that's not any better. Learned quickly not to bother with there.
HN isn't really a place for plain political discussions, so I don't participate in those. They do exist though, and end up getting locked. I'd probably be more right-wing than most.
Also using reddit as a baseline is like using a cesspool tank as a baseline of sanitation.
So what is your non-cesspool forum example that isn't Reddit? Twitter seemingly got taken over by bots early on, Facebook pages were a disaster at least when I was in college, and those are the big ones.
X optimizes for engagement and as studies have shown, that means optimizing for rage bait.
Reddit optimizes for rage bait too but includes a voting system that hides unpopular opinions, so any person that conflicts with the majority is marginalized. So on top of being full of rage bait, its an echo-chamber and that is before even talking about the powermod problem.
HN is much like reddit in style, so fundamentally HN also tends towards an echo chamber.
And by echo chamber, I mean a cringe circle jerk: a New Yorker article called it "performative erudition".
Gotta say though, it's rich hearing this from New Yorker.