Ask HN: What Social Media are you using outside HN? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What Social Media are you using outside HN?

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Post by client4 » Wed, Mar 28, 2018, 5:27 PM UTC

Does Keybase count? It allows me to update various contact methods and allows strangers to contact me in a verifiable manner.

Re: Ask HN: What Social Media are you using outside HN?

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Post by omgbananas » Wed, Mar 28, 2018, 5:28 PM UTC

Sublevel. The design is pretty good, but it's a little lacking on features which may or may not be a good thing.

https://sublevel.net

Re: Ask HN: What Social Media are you using outside HN?

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Post by craftyguy » Wed, Mar 28, 2018, 5:29 PM UTC

Does github count?

Re: Ask HN: What Social Media are you using outside HN?

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Post by jedanbik » Wed, Mar 28, 2018, 5:30 PM UTC

I use Nuzzel to track things shared by multiple people that I follow on various platforms such as Twitter that are trending over a given timeframe.

Great if you are interested in getting news from a niche area - let's say you follow 10 high profile VR people on twitter, and then half of them post an article about some VR thing, I'll see that on Nuzzel, and I won't have to scroll through Twitter and mentally cluster/count to know about the hot new thing in VR that VR people are talking about.

http://nuzzel.com/

Re: Ask HN: What Social Media are you using outside HN?

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Post by lev99 » Wed, Mar 28, 2018, 5:31 PM UTC

Facebook:

    * Groups: My primary use of Facebook.  I'm involved with several local and special interest groups.  

    * Messenger: It's better than SMS.

    * Videos: The video system is really good, and I've subscribed to several channels.  Mostly industry, intellectual, and educational channels.

    * Walls: When I ask myself "I wounder what that person I fell out of touch with 2 years ago is up to" this is where I go.  

    * Events: If I feel the need to go out and get some R&R but I don't have any plans I check this for things to do.

LinkedIn: Early in my career I created a LinkedIn page. I've received several job offers from it over the years, and even accepted two. I keep it up, and use it as a reference to build my resume. If I'm considering switching offices I flip that switch to get a feel for the current local labor market and how it matches with my skill set.

IRC: Classics never die.

Special interest webforms: Another place to meet people with similar hobbies.

Discord: This is starting to take over IRC in several communities I am involved in. It's Slack for fun things instead of work things. I watch about a dozen topics in a half dozen "servers".

Re: Ask HN: What Social Media are you using outside HN?

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Post by beart » Wed, Mar 28, 2018, 5:32 PM UTC

4ad wrote: post #14

I don't use social media. I have a Google+ account to share photos (and nothing else) with my family, but the bugs make that harder and harder, so I'll have to abandon it. (Any suggestions?)

I use google photos to share with family without ever touching Google+. I have a shared "family" album with everyone invited to it. Any time I have new photos to share, I add them to that album and everyone gets a notification to check it out. Also, my significant other and I have our entire photo libraries shared with each other.

Re: Ask HN: What Social Media are you using outside HN?

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Post by jacquesm » Wed, Mar 28, 2018, 5:33 PM UTC

iBelieve wrote: post #19

Twitter: I follow Christian leaders I respect as well as a bunch of software developers and some software projects Facebook: I have a small number of friends on Facebook, but I never use it for posting personal things about my life, just to follow people. RSS: I follow a lot of software projects, software developer blogs, and some Christian leaders/bloggers. This overlaps with Twitter to some extent but more for inte…

> I follow Christian leaders I respect

That made me wonder if Jesus Chris was alive today whether he would have a twitter account for you to follow.

Re: Ask HN: What Social Media are you using outside HN?

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Post by maleno » Wed, Mar 28, 2018, 5:40 PM UTC

protomyth wrote: post #18

Twitter: sadly, the UI that keeps showing me people's favorites instead of just their retweets is killing my enjoyment. I really wish they would quit screwing around with someone that should be so simple.

This was really bugging me until I realised that sorting the people I follow into lists basically reverts my feeds into a standard chronological timeline again. Minus Twitter's "screwing around", the site is actually useable. Might take a bit of work if you follow a lot of people, but it's totally been worth it for me at least.

Re: Ask HN: What Social Media are you using outside HN?

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Post by fenwick67 » Wed, Mar 28, 2018, 5:44 PM UTC

Mastodon for general musings, art-posting and feed-scrolling

Reddit for more topic-specific stuff (mechanical keyboards, D&D etc)

SMS for person-to-person chat

I have a blog for whenever I feel like writing a blog post, or showcasing software stuff I'm working on

Re: Ask HN: What Social Media are you using outside HN?

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Post by s_dev » Wed, Mar 28, 2018, 5:47 PM UTC

Subreddits: /r/Ireland /r/DevelEire /r/europe /r/swift+programming+webdev+unixporn+linuxmasterrace+etc (Still a reddit addict after years)

Twitter/Product Hunt (Really don't like twitter, gradually moving on)

Slack (Dislike it because of system footprint it imposes)

YouTube/Google+/GSuite

Have disliked Facebook since 2006.