Like, the site owners/employees/admins/mods are the only ones who choose what to post(and hopefully not extremely bias and a good spread of topics), but the users can still upvote/downvote the post as well as comment and all that?

I like the aggregation mark down style of these sites, but I am not sure about the curation being purely user based. I am curious if the users having a large majority control of the curation hurts the quality, and I’d like to see comparisons if they exist.

  • mob@lemmy.worldOP
    3·
    1 year ago

    Actually I stumbled onto that one before I posted. I have a new goal in life to get to a level that Hacker News posts are just light reading for me.

    For now, most of that is way above my pay grade but I loved the posts I understood ha

    • edric@lemm.ee
      2·
      1 year ago

      There’s a bot that reposts HN content, but I’m not sure if it has its own community. And if it does, I don’t think there’s any restrictions on posting from users.

      Edit: There is !hackernews@derp.foo . It doesn’t limit users from posting though, but I don’t see anyone really posting other than the bot anyway.

    • player2@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, some of them are way too technical for me as well. Only some of the articles end up getting reposted to lemmy though, when I browse directly on hacker news, I tend to find a good mix of articles that are less technical but still interesting.