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amadeuspagel
HN is more and more becoming like a twitter alternative in the sense that people are constantly talking about twitter.
ggm
I don't understand the logic. Because we talk about things.. we become them? What's the causative element?
catach
Took me another read, but I think the assertion is that a strong characteristic of twitter alternatives is that they talk about twitter a great deal. And so that's a common thread between twitter alternatives and HN.
ggm
It's in the rules for HN that it's a passive (not passive aggressive) variant of fight club: we don't talk about HN because .. it's boring to get meta about HN.
dirtyhippiefree
That’s how science gets flagged here and Twitter can’t help but appear.

“But it’s technology!”

“But we don’t discuss HN publicly.”