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Re: Ask HN: What sources like HN do you consume?

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Post by nitwit005 »

detritus wrote: post #22
thal3s wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reddit is deteriorating by the day. The Fediverse (specifically Lemmy and PieFed) have much higher signal to noise ratios and are frequented by the same folks you see here in a lot of cases. Additionally, their APIs are open and free.

Reddit is deteriorating every day like China's economic model is ever-closer to collapse each day - oft-repeated claims that become ever harder to believe when they've been trotted out, on the daily, for fifteen years whilst seemingly never getting any truer.

Personal theory is, you can get into a state where you'd still growing due to network effects, as you're the main location for some topics, but new communities go somewhere else, so you're losing that traffic.

Some of Discord's largest servers are for AI tools, as it seemed like the logical choice when they were getting going. A couple years earlier I'm sure it would have been reddit.

Re: Ask HN: What sources like HN do you consume?

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Post by mejutoco »

detritus wrote: post #22
thal3s wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reddit is deteriorating by the day. The Fediverse (specifically Lemmy and PieFed) have much higher signal to noise ratios and are frequented by the same folks you see here in a lot of cases. Additionally, their APIs are open and free.

Reddit is deteriorating every day like China's economic model is ever-closer to collapse each day - oft-repeated claims that become ever harder to believe when they've been trotted out, on the daily, for fifteen years whilst seemingly never getting any truer.

Reddit is infested with bots. Hn is not immune to astroturfing either.

Re: Ask HN: What sources like HN do you consume?

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Post by theorchid »

robtherobber wrote: post #17
jaen wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Probably because it seems AI-generated, and suggesting dev.to is in line with that - that place is actually an absolute cesspit of slop (SNR 1:100), as far as I have seen.

Thanks for the explanation. I wasn't aware that dev.to is of such low quality.

Perhaps this is because programmers know how to use AI. And they thought it would be a good idea to generate content using AI.

But other programmers who see this content immediately realize that it was generated and stop reading it.

Re: Ask HN: What sources like HN do you consume?

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Post by LollipopYakuza »

chistev wrote: post #18
LollipopYakuza wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A psychologist told me a few days ago that they would love having an equivalent for their domain of work.

You could build a HN clone for them for that purpose, but I tell you the problem would be onboarding users. I built a HN clone for someone who wanted it focused on just E-Commerce discussions, but it failed to take off. Also didn't help that the person wanted to monetize it using a pay-to-use model. It never took off.

This makes sense. Community driven websites need... a community. Same reason why it is hard for subs to move away from Reddit.

Re: Ask HN: What sources like HN do you consume?

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Post by qalmakka »

LollipopYakuza wrote: post #13
unsupp0rted wrote: post #3

This question comes up every year (I've seen it for the nearly 2 decades of HN), and the answers are never satisfying. Other industries just don't have an HN equivalent, either for lack of trying or because hackers are good making and using things like HN when others aren't.

A psychologist told me a few days ago that they would love having an equivalent for their domain of work.

That's precisely why we had forums back in the '00s. there were forums for basically everything under the sun - unfortunately they mostly died nowadays. HN is basically just a forum with a single board that got enough recognition - your average forum had more boards than users and was so fragmented it mostly ended up in instadeath after a few months,maybe years

Re: Ask HN: What sources like HN do you consume?

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Post by Gooblebrai »

I vibecoded a clone of HN, for philosophical topics, which I'm very fond of. However, I have done a terrible job of marketing it, so that is still on my list: http://forum.philosofriends.com

Right now is basically a repository of philosophy-related links I find interesting, but it would be awesome to find a way to start generating philosophical discussions of the quality I find in HN for tech/AI

Re: Ask HN: What sources like HN do you consume?

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Post by sph »

LollipopYakuza wrote: post #13
unsupp0rted wrote: post #3

This question comes up every year (I've seen it for the nearly 2 decades of HN), and the answers are never satisfying. Other industries just don't have an HN equivalent, either for lack of trying or because hackers are good making and using things like HN when others aren't.

A psychologist told me a few days ago that they would love having an equivalent for their domain of work.

There are plenty of mental cases on x.com
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