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And I think you missed mine.

I agree with you. A lot of innovation is indeed crap. But there are times when they are not crap, but brilliant instead.

So these crappy and brilliant innovators are going to move to the whacky societies. It's for Europeans to judge if that is a net loss or a net gain.

What an interesting point of view. Very European. I wonder what will those Europeans do that do need the high-performance computer chips to create something new, to innovate.

They will probably move to those whacked out societies.

You are right.

It might not work out. But I think it's worth trying.

I believe that large part of HN's success has to do with its simplicity and lack of fluff. There is no sharing on social media, no "hearting" comments or posts, no way to see who liked a particular post, etc.. There are only posts and discussions. That's it.

If this is indeed what keeps out people who make such websites crappy, then it can be replicated.

I think both approaches are used on HN, and I like that model. Votes are a cheap solution that work great as long as abuse is taken care of.

I have not thought of anything concrete yet as I literally got this idea yesterday. But I am confident that most of the drivel can be kept out of the platform. The goal is to keep out people who enjoy reading sweet nothings. As long as you don't have them on the platform, bad writers won't have an audience. To do this, make the platform as boring looking as possible (like HN). When those over-stimulated entertainment junkies don't find flashy content, they will go back to scrolling tiktok.

Replacing HN is not really the goal as HN is a news aggregator, not a content-hosting platform and it works great.