Ironic given that you are decrying the evils of a forum supposedly becoming an echo chamber.

I appear to be the only woman to have ever spent time on the HN leader board.

I spent nearly six years homeless and was an active participant here during that time. I was quite open about being homeless.

I'm firmly against UBI when UBI is a fairly popular idea around here.

I'm critical of what I frame the "pro vax" crowd, which is a highly controversial position.

I've been thrown off of multiple forums or simply left because it wasn't productive.

Although I have a lobsters account, I barely spend any time there in part because of the gestapo like inquiry from the moderating staff concerning why the hell I had joined given that I don't yet know how to code. The moderating staff made it quite clear my nefarious interest in a coding forum as a non programmer combined with "unusual behavior" -- probably largely rooted in being a demographic outlier -- meant they absolutely had their eye on me.

This made me feel distinctly uncomfortable in a way I have never felt on HN. It also suggests a dramatically lower tolerance for social differences than HN has.

Your view of HN vs Lobsters and mine aren't remotely on the same page. And cussing at me about how you have logic on your side utterly fails to overturn the weight of my first-hand experience with both forums.