Been a Hacker News user since this launched, but have been feeling increasingly like I'm not part of this culture and don't want to be part of this culture anymore. So I'm out.
It's sad and kind of tragic to see what was once a thriving, diverse community that embraced all types of marginalized people (nerds, engineers, geeks, and so on) become a cesspool of bigotry and hate speech.
And the real tragedy, of course, is that Hacker News is just a microcosm of the developer culture -- which has become disgusting and hateful.
I hope those of you who are not bigots manage to fix this place. I hope the developer culture becomes healthier and less toxic. But I'm not going to be around to help or see it. Y'all are too exhausting and depressing.
I am not going to to the site at all today, I mostly lurk in the sysadmin subreddit anyway and they have choosen not to go dark for reasons I disagree with
but regardless, I removing myself from the traffic of the site..
by the 30th I plan on archiving all my historical comments, and deleting my accounts
This is a message to all of the remaining developers there that it's time to move on. But you know there's plenty of "that won't happen to me, I'm different" going on.
I'm not pro gamergate discussion, but the level of censorship recently is too high to ignore.
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