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It’s not just PH, it’s that entire subculture of “founders” or whatever you want to call it, that is just 99% fake and sucks balls.

This is true these days. The biggest calling card for the non-hacker pg callback founder is a forbes 30u30 inclusion - almost nothing worse.

I don't know if it's fair to call this a dead-internet thing. Most comments on social media are nothing or misdirection. You might say "well that's easy if you're paying for fake activity from bots" but I've seen plenty of real people have transactional, nothing-exchanges in real life. I mean, the internet isn't the only place where people are fake/lazy.

If you want to see purified, epiphany-grade Dead Internet, I recommend the "games" category.

Yes, DIT is dead on. Though not completely for free. Front page is gonna cost ya $100-200.

It seriously lacked what discussion happens in a Product Review or Design Review internally (ideally) at a company.