LOL how dare you to ask about shity reddit on SN?

I learned that democracy doesn't work long before I found Reddit, so I've always just laughed at it. I did make an account to read WallStreetBets for about two weeks (what a time to be alive), but it's literally unusable garbage, and it has fake RedditPoints or something like a ChuckeeCheeze carnival. It's for children with stockholm.

I still use Reddit to read a few niche subreddits, and I'll search there for answers to older questions (because over the last fifteen years, pretty much every "how do I fix this" question has been answered somewhere there), but it's no longer a place I post to.

I never used HN (other that when someone shared a link elsewhere), so there was nothing to give up (and honestly, I'd thought on first learning about it that SN was just "Hacker News with Sats," and didn't realize just how much deeper it was, even before taking actual content and users into account).

I was fairly active on Reddit for a while, but I had pretty much stopped using it for anything but a few pretty niche subreddits the last 3-4 years. I prefer the BBS/forum format a lot better, especially since they're generally dedicated to a specific topic. A lot easier to compartmentalize that way.

I started using SN primarily because of the higher rate of well thought out content available. I don't feel I have the knowledge or ability to produce that content myself, but I'm always interested to learn more about a lot of the different topics represented here.