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Someone here pointed out that one of the developers on the project is actually the primary developer's vtuber persona.

That's literally it.

Someone in the project considers HN not a safe-space for queer viewpoints / racist / homophobic.

I am very much at a loss as well as this has never been my experience.

A lot of the arguments started with "when you enable showdead, there's lots of dead comments of people being vile".

Just not sure what to say.

Here's some context [0]

Indeed, it does often boil down to dead comments being... not great, unsurprisingly.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36226845

The fact is that they're dead, though. They've been killed - by either the users, or the mods. Getting upset over them is unreasonable.

Probably just not wanting to deal with the unsavory side of the lurking userbase on HN or the poor, ill-informed discussion on sensitive/political topics? There are certain things HN is not good at talking about

There are multiple people I've seen express this in-desire towards HN