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LOL, you're on a social network right now. HN is one. Yeah, it's semi-anonymous, but there are many users with known names here.
by bufferoverflow 1y ago
LOL, you're on a social network right now. HN is one. Yeah, it's semi-anonymous, but there are many users with known names here.
- gloosx 1y agoWrong, social network is centered around the concept of "you" and your "friends", where the content itself is not as important. There is no concept of "friends" on a forum like HN, since people purely gather to discuss topics of interest here.
- rchaud 1y ago> Wrong, social network is centered around the concept of "you" and your "friends", where the content itself is not as important. This post was brought to you by the year 2012.
- croes 1y agoBut I can’t follow them. I don’t get notifications when they post new links or comments, I can’t send them specifically my links and comments. I have no groups or circles. HN is more of a discussion forum and not for connecting with others.
- rchaud 1y agoNobody is "connecting" on social media anymore, they are just liking and commenting on whatever random thing the algo throws at them. You and I are the doing same thing, commenting on posts made by strangers.
- whiplash451 1y agoHN skips many of the dark patterns that other social medias have: - no infinite scroll (you have to click on "More") - no personal recommendation - no feedback loop between your upvotes and the feed - no messaging or following between users HN looks a lot more like news groups from back in the days.
- rchaud 1y agoThe comment threads are basically "infinite scroll". They're paginated once they hit 500 or something. Scanning a SM post takes 2 seconds, HN comments much longer.
- graemep 1y agoIts not the pagination that matters, it is the lack of a feed that you can keep scrolling. The front page is paginated at 30. Longer comments are a good thing.