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.
Today both sites consist of links along the lines of "how AI affects my fragile bubble", "promote my new useless sas project", or "I'm ditching x for y". All noise, very little signal. So I've decided to block the two sites, in order to break my habit of checking them. No more picking up my phone and reading the mindless babble posted on there.
I predict this will benefit me long term. If there is something that I have learned over the last twelve years of developing software it is this.
IGNORE WHAT EVERYONE ELSE IS DOING.
Seriously. If you want to build something, go build it. Build it your way, using your tools. You can literally make anything you want with in the digital space. Why limit yourself based off the opinions of some internet trolls.
Have fun making things, make fun things.