The Internet is Worse Than Ever – Now What?

Why HN readers recommended it

HN recommends it in threads about dying forums and social media as a lens on why smaller communities suit us better.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

Topic

social media and polarization

Format

explainer

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

5

HN mentions in dataset

8

Recommendation years in dataset

2023–2025

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• I view social media through this lens now. [VIDEO] It's less that we are in echo chambers and more of being completly flooded with too many opinions. Avacados == liberal Steaks == conservative The point I take is that the only way to prevent this …

• Sure, bring him back or whatever. But don’t pretend it has anything to do with free speech. That’s undermining the importance of the concept free speech. Free speech has never been about forcing all (social or not) media platforms to publish the opinions of all …

• Why do you think that being spread out is an issue? Niche forums like HN were exactly how the internet worked before mass social media arrived and ruined everything. Going back to this old format is exactly what we should be doing in my opinion. …