This does not make any sense.
Make Hacker News Your Facebook Newsfeed
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#52This does not make any sense. Like whats the point?
Re: Make Hacker News Your Facebook Newsfeed
#53just delete a fuckin facebook profile, you will do yourself a favour
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#54I expected something more creative, replacing posts with my friends, like my grandmother sharing why React is awesome and my primary school friends discussing how did they go microservices.
This is brilliant
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#55I expected something more creative, replacing posts with my friends, like my grandmother sharing why React is awesome and my primary school friends discussing how did they go microservices.
I love this so much. Sitting at a party that you have no interest in, reading hackernews, while everyone thinks you're just hanging out on facebook.
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#56I've always used an extension to completely block the news feed (like [0]) and I've found it to be an excellent deterrant to using facebook in general. Generally now I use messenger.com when I have to but otherwise completely avoid the site. Although HN has now pretty much replaced facebook as my go-to site when I open a browser, so I'm not sure how useful it is after all. At least it's domain-specific and less psych…
I went cold turkey and closed my fb account. Feeling a little bit of abstinence, but I think I'm replacing it with more activity here and instead of opening fb on my phone, I open an ebook reader, so it's good so far.
Me too, but I still can't stop using WhatsApp, it's the most popular IM app in my country, and only a small percentage of my friends cares enough about their privacy and digital freedom to switch to an alternative.
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#57I expected something more creative, replacing posts with my friends, like my grandmother sharing why React is awesome and my primary school friends discussing how did they go microservices.
I love this so much. Sitting at a party that you have no interest in, reading hackernews, while everyone thinks you're just hanging out on facebook.
Is one of those less nerdy than the other?
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#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
I went cold turkey and closed my fb account. Feeling a little bit of abstinence, but I think I'm replacing it with more activity here and instead of opening fb on my phone, I open an ebook reader, so it's good so far.
Me too, but I still can't stop using WhatsApp, it's the most popular IM app in my country, and only a small percentage of my friends cares enough about their privacy and digital freedom to switch to an alternative.
Oh, I kept Whatsapp. It's not that I care about privacy or digital freedom, I assume those are lost by now.
I care about the amount of time I spend on those platforms and the amount of garbage I consume on them. Whatsapp is just a messaging platform, not one that provides an information feed to consume. I kept twitter because it's short and limits the text I could post to someone about something, which also limits the desire to do so because a tweet is ironic, informative or sarcastic, but cannot ensue a good and lenghty discussion (though some people try that, I cannot bear to imagine doing so)
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#59Re: Make Hacker News Your Facebook Newsfeed
#60Or just redirect facebook to hackernews via your hosts file? I can't emphasize enough how beneficial it has been to stop using facebook completely, I would highly recommend you try it.
I think the point of this extension is for people who need to access facebook features like groups and events, but don't want to get distracted by the dopamine-inducing newsfeed on the way
So instead you're distracted by the dopamine-inducing Hacker News feed.