Leaving lobste.rs rant

For context, I have gotten a lot of emails either asking why I deactivated my account or just sending me well wishes after the deactivation. This post is more for them than anyone else. If you don't care about random techbro website drama, feel free to skip. I had been tired of the site for a while. When I joined lobste.rs it was pretty much hacker news but good: people were reasonable and found joy in crafting stuff with computer, instead of trying to make profit at all means possible which is just tiresome to read about. Well, time seems to have catched up on lobste.rs too since the joy of crafting is gone. Many are instead dickswinging about some new thing they generated which will be unmaintained in couple weeks, or just trying to do what hacker news do: make profit at all means possible. Discussions are usually: "hey is this tag evil" and bunch of "yes/no" or something else similar. But what really got me leave was the fucking audacity of some people implicitly proclaiming that…