You (and me) can bitch all you want, but reddit has well prepared for us whining and being sad will change nothing.
Mark my words: KYC will be required on HN in about two years. Not because dang will want it, but because that's the direction the world is going to.
Garry Tan, president & CEO of YC, on Flock support: "You're thinking Chinese surveillance US-based surveillance helps victims and prevents more victims" [1]
The tech/VC people want it, because that's where the money will be.
Oh Persona is also used on Reddit [2].
Persona.
A YC backed company.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48628264
[2] https://help.withpersona.com/articles/7F6BaF9h8Fxf0XWkwQscXN...
[1] https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2026/02/age-verificat...
For me, ditching Reddit was what changed.
We are clearly the minority and reddit is happy to pay the price of us leaving the platform.
Use a VPN, perhaps Mullvad or IVPN to appear to sites as if you are from a freer country (or state) to bypass the KYC.
Yes I understand. They are better prepared to fight the surveillance state than I am. And yet they caved in instead of putting out some resistance.
Doesn't matter. They want your passport.
Very weird world we live in!
Of course people are deficient by the billions.
Internet WILL be completely KYCed and very soon. That's kind of inevitable.
But the systemic clusterfuck must be fixed at some point. We can't mingle with the monkeys for too long.
Hypoteses non fingo (Newton)
I deal with the objective.
Such as, no Man accepts identification when accessing information.
That is completely different from any "opinion".
We moved here because it was the best place available: we'd move elsewhere in case this place will not be available.
It's just that a small minority will continue to protect child abuse^W^W^Wresist utopia.
Speak for yourself; I would drop HN like a bad habit and never look back.
But yes, we're not normies.