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Re: Make Hacker News Your Facebook Newsfeed

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Post by ycombinete »

mistermann wrote: post #41
notadoc wrote: post #27

Or 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.

Other than it being almost a complete waste of time with all the nonsense spam clickbait articles there nowadays, I don't see what other benefits there are from avoiding it really. Jealousy at people's fake lives perhaps?

There are plents. This page (while obviously written to someone else) is good. Specifically for the number of links at the bottom with much more in depth information: www.matthewbrecher.com/socialmedia.html

Re: Make Hacker News Your Facebook Newsfeed

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Post by fazkan »

fazkan wrote: post #78

I use a chrome extension go fucking do it, which disables facebook, twitter and reddit. The only thing that I can see is hackernews. As a fall back, I have also installed facebook newsfeed eradicator (chrome extension), because I dont trust myself. It shows me motivational quotes instead of the newsfeed. This extension just gave me the idea to replace the newsfeed with hackernews posts, and as someone mentioned, have…

What I have realized for myself tough is that being a developer, you need an avenue for mindless tasks. Unfortunately due to cultural programming and a good job on behalf of the creators, it is the social media sites, the productive yield of which is very low.

So, for myself atleast, I have realized that I cannot absolutely stop using these sites. The best thing to do then, is to replace it with another activity that is productive and similar. hackernews does a good job.

Some people mentioned reading an ebook that sounds better. Will try that as well.

I think gaming can be considered as well.

Re: Make Hacker News Your Facebook Newsfeed

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Post by diegoperini »

fazkan wrote: post #82
fazkan wrote: post #78

I use a chrome extension go fucking do it, which disables facebook, twitter and reddit. The only thing that I can see is hackernews. As a fall back, I have also installed facebook newsfeed eradicator (chrome extension), because I dont trust myself. It shows me motivational quotes instead of the newsfeed. This extension just gave me the idea to replace the newsfeed with hackernews posts, and as someone mentioned, have…

What I have realized for myself tough is that being a developer, you need an avenue for mindless tasks. Unfortunately due to cultural programming and a good job on behalf of the creators, it is the social media sites, the productive yield of which is very low. So, for myself atleast, I have realized that I cannot absolutely stop using these sites. The best thing to do then, is to replace it with another activity that…

I completely agree. Although it is not that mindless of a task, I personaly prefer playing a musical instrument without thinking too much of its theory. Playing music like a musician who codes really helps.

Re: Make Hacker News Your Facebook Newsfeed

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Post by kronos29296 »

sandov wrote: post #56
mrleinad wrote: post #19

Earlier 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.

Can't go without whatsapp. Though facebook is out. Never was very active. Heck, I am more on HN than on facebook, twitter combined.

Re: Make Hacker News Your Facebook Newsfeed

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Post by piracyde25 »

calt wrote: post #18
dkonofalski wrote: post #9

I'm confused as to why someone would want this instead of just going to HN directly? If you don't like Facebook, don't use it. :-/

One word: Addiction Facebook events are invaluable to my life these days, but the news feed is an addiction that I've been fighting since university. If only I could be %100 dedicated to all resolutions without any effort then I wouldn't need any tricks like this. Plus this is just meant to be silly. I should really just blank out the news feed like someone else suggested.

Here is a similar attempt at fighting Facebook addiction https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/29032-hide-yo-timeline

Re: Make Hacker News Your Facebook Newsfeed

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Post by em3rgent0rdr »

ChuckMcM wrote: post #55
CSDude wrote: post #16

I 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.

it's funny how staring at your phone at a party is not only socially acceptable, but also almost necessary to communicate that you have friends. This browser plugins helps us less popular people appear important.
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