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HN = Hacker News is a link aggregator like Reddit or Lemmy. (I’m on all three under the same username)
It often has odd stuff like this because the goal of HN is to have “anything that would be interesting to hackers” and not just tech news.
Since HN doesn’t have a notion of subreddit or community, everything hits the same front page and there isn’t really a way to filter it out.
So everything posted to HN will get posted to this community? OP’s previous post was just a link to Matrix which really seems like useless spam, hence my confusion! Thanks for the explanation 😄
I’m not sure how OP decides whether to x-post something from HN (manually? randomly? vote threshold?). But in the Matrix example it’s pretty common for HN users to post a project page as the article and then use the comments to discuss the project. In this case it looks like a fair number of users upvoted it but no one had anything to say.
It does seem confusing now that I think about it, if you aren’t familiar with HN. It has its own weird little culture and rules. I generally like it there most of the time.
If you click the [comments] link instead of the post link, it’ll take you to the HN comment section which is often more interesting than the article.
Looks like OP is a bot for this particular community that just copies articles from various sources