Ignore what everyone else is doing
I check Hacker News and Lobsters all the time. It's sort of like an addiction, or maybe just a bad habit. It started about three years ago when I would post blog links on the two platforms. Which Lobsters banned me for. Apparently self promotion is wrong. Well I have no friends or colleagues to post for me, so it's self promotion or no promotion. Anyway, there was a time when I would occasionally find a gem from a dev blog on those sites. This fuelled the dopamine hit and got me coming back for more. Over time I found increasingly less content that was in anyway useful or insightful.