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Why is Hacker News like that? (drewdevault.com)

submitted 1 week ago by technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.ml

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Hacker News is a case study in what inevitably happens to “apolitical” spaces. Politics and society are bifurcating, and Hacker News is taking the fork on the right. “Apolitical” is an excuse to favor the status quo, a resistance to change, and therefore a re-enforcement of the existing biases and power structures of society. It’s no surprise that Hacker News favors capitalism, opposes labor, and objects to questioning the privileges of its largely white, male, middle-class audience. It’s “political” and “ideological” for it to do anything else.

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[–] MNByChoice@midwest.social 16 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Pulling forward the first paragraph of the article, as we are far from universally reading articles these days.

Hacker News (aka HN) is a link aggregator where “hackers” gather to discuss technology, politics, and anything which “good hackers would find interesting”. HN is a means by which its host, prominent startup incubator Y Combinator, projects soft power, promotes startups it funds, and feeds people with ideas into its incubation program. Hacker News is one of the most popular forums for discussing technology online today – perhaps the biggest.

Does any know of a pro-union or pro-cooperative startup incubator?

[–] abbenm@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Does any know of a pro-union or pro-cooperative startup incubator?

I don't know that Mozilla actually does this in a values-aligned way, but they do have their own seed funding venture arm. I know Mozilla gets a lot of guff, 99% of it unfair imo, but I think it's one of the smartest things they're doing for long term viability.

Part of what they value and are looking to fund are "healthy communities" but for their purposes that might mean something like FOSS principles and privacy rather than healthy ownership/governance structures for orgs.

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