Most of what you read on the internet is written by insane people (2018)

In my experience, any subreddits with general appeal suffer from the same problem. Just find your niche/hobby subs and stick to them. Stay away from r/pics, news, etc...

You can still have tiny kings in small subs - mods with <10k members who let that "power" go to their heads - but it is more rare.

First, my partner is a highschool math teacher and in his casual surveys and discussions, most students don't use reddit: tiktok still dominates. The ones that do, mostly boys, just watch fight and war videos. Girls apparently are into makeup videos. News to me.

Second, I'm in my 50's and there's no way teenagers are interested in political discussions. Maybe they are, but the people I get in flame wars with speak and act like angry adults: their rages and complaints would require too much effort for a teenager to fabricate.

I think the truth is Reddit is mostly adults but for some reason lots of adults want to believe it is just teenagers, possibly because we act like children online sometimes?

There are the default front-page subreddits, that attract "the masses."

Then there's everything else, and each of those subreddits has its own moderation team and culture. They range from trash to gold. Generalizing about these is almost always off-base.

Unless you're on /r/teenagers, then a startlingly large percentage of commenters are much much older and are probably grooming.

Let's not think that we on HN are much better

The traditional entertainments always have a profit-motive. They cannot publish anything too insane as they worry it might unduly effect profits. So there’s at least some gatekeeping and some critical apparatus that is not quite peer review but that at least provides some critical filter and dampening mechanism, even the most morally deplorable entertainers often tried to keep the unsavory aspects of their lives off the stage because they understood the potential dangers of alienating audiences once the truth of their morales came to the surface.

The internet has a far different structure and the motives for creators differ. A profit motive still exists, but other factors are more prevalent. In fact, I’d argue that the internet has allowed views previously considered more fringe to make their way into the more rigid systems of traditional television etc. since the success of radical views on the internet has convinced the traditional media that such radical views are not in fact a harm to profit motive but may actually increase profits (you can see this most clearly in the increasing radicalism of the views expressed by political television pundits, who by the way, often go so far as to reference views espoused online)

Unfortunately, subsequent academics have viewed Foucault’s work as a complete theoretic and used it as an instrument to apply to other areas rather than continue and extend the study of power itself.

Tone, speed of speech, or lack of speech is how she communicates her feelings.

Words themselves are usually meaningless.

Now and then she’ll slow down and have a real conversation.

Her sister is exact opposite. Will tell you in no in uncertain terms what her thoughts and feelings are. No ambiguity.

I would classify them as eccentric rather than that term.

- Tillitis Key – Mullvad spin-off inspired by measured boot and DICE

- A Microfluidic D-subminiature Connector (2013)

- Unicode character “ꙮ” (U+A66E) is being updated

- Why Adobe still can’t figure out Flash on WASM?

Tell me who gives a single fuck about this kind of ultra-niche topics, to the point of making them reach the front page of HN? Insane people.

>"Edit: I guess my tone-projection is off. A lot of people seem to be put-off by my usage of the word "insane." I intended that as tongue-in-cheek and did not mean to imply that any of them literally have diagnosable mental illnesses. I have a lot of respect for all of the individuals I listed and they seem like nice people, I was just trying to make a point about how unusual their behavior is."