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There are a lot...many will be better once you add their filters or join the right sections/communities. Steemit Lemmy Raddle Reddit Tildes Metafilter Lancebase Folkd Pythonic news Echo js Littr.me 20-things Lobste.rs Hackaday Southgate amateur radio news Soylent news Kottke.org Federated thingies like Mastodon (Drum roll please...) Facebook groups Twitter lists Email lists
Advice to myself (a while back when I wondered the same thing)... put the phone down once you've reached the end of page 1, and the first page of new submissions. Life is for living, tech is for 'doing', and anything more than 20 minutes online is procrastination. You're a different person with different requirements, but I thought I'd just throw in my 2c. PS: I rarely keep it to 20 minutes a day but I try
I think about this too regarding being a producer vs. consumer Still I get to the point where I can't think/function anymore, and then find something to do/surf something/get those points
As humans we are integration machines. We need to take in novel information in order to combine it and produce new novel information. HN definitely helps with that, as the bullshit here is at a minimum with interesting technical information all over the place. Its honestly a gold mine, similar to what Slashdot was in yesteryear.
I have a similar question to OP: when HN dies like Slashdot, what's next?
Honestly my guess is that I won't get a solid answer in this thread, but some time after HN dies I'll just find myself on the next thing just like I found HN years after I left Slashdot
There are a lot...many will be better once you add their filters or join the right sections/communities. Steemit Lemmy Raddle Reddit Tildes Metafilter Lancebase Folkd Pythonic news Echo js Littr.me 20-things Lobste.rs Hackaday Southgate amateur radio news Soylent news Kottke.org Federated thingies like Mastodon (Drum roll please...) Facebook groups Twitter lists Email lists
I am very curious about Facebook groups: did you find good ones? My experience with Facebook content has been total garbage and I'd like to know if my experience is just circumstantial.
This question makes me feel like HN is becoming lame.
There are a lot...many will be better once you add their filters or join the right sections/communities. Steemit Lemmy Raddle Reddit Tildes Metafilter Lancebase Folkd Pythonic news Echo js Littr.me 20-things Lobste.rs Hackaday Southgate amateur radio news Soylent news Kottke.org Federated thingies like Mastodon (Drum roll please...) Facebook groups Twitter lists Email lists
I am very curious about Facebook groups: did you find good ones? My experience with Facebook content has been total garbage and I'd like to know if my experience is just circumstantial.
(If you're into art, be sure to check out art and artist groups/pages. People wonder where Flickr went and it's right there, not Instagram.)
Keep in mind that some of these groups actively use their Files and Photos sections which can be like gold.
FB's participation model does incentivize things like simple brigading & passive-aggressive behavior, though (IMO), so it's also a good idea to get a feel for the quality of discourse and moderation before diving in if you are interested in participating rather than lurking.
It's really too bad the participation model has to be so static across the entire platform, because some of the groups are one or two customizations/tweaks away from being really epic with regard to community particpation. You could solve a lot of the social problems there with a more dynamic approach to the software design & provisioning.
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I think about this too regarding being a producer vs. consumer Still I get to the point where I can't think/function anymore, and then find something to do/surf something/get those points
Something to keep in mind is that this is a balance, like everything else in life. As humans we are integration machines. We need to take in novel information in order to combine it and produce new novel information. HN definitely helps with that, as the bullshit here is at a minimum with interesting technical information all over the place. Its honestly a gold mine, similar to what Slashdot was in yesteryear. I have…
Hackaday was already listed, that's nuts so much creativity on there.
IEEE video friday's is good imo regarding robotics stuff.
Advice to myself (a while back when I wondered the same thing)... put the phone down once you've reached the end of page 1, and the first page of new submissions. Life is for living, tech is for 'doing', and anything more than 20 minutes online is procrastination. You're a different person with different requirements, but I thought I'd just throw in my 2c. PS: I rarely keep it to 20 minutes a day but I try
Advice to myself (a while back when I wondered the same thing)... put the phone down once you've reached the end of page 1, and the first page of new submissions. Life is for living, tech is for 'doing', and anything more than 20 minutes online is procrastination. You're a different person with different requirements, but I thought I'd just throw in my 2c. PS: I rarely keep it to 20 minutes a day but I try
After all of that, I still want more and more, but I'm not sure what exactly I want more of and I don't know if I've gained anything from it in the first place. I don't even feel particularly satisfied visiting any of these sites--usually some mixture of frustration, anxiousness, or some other negative emotion. Occasionally I'll find an interesting thread here, a funny Reddit thread, or an informative Youtube video, but the "hit" goes away relatively quickly, I forget all about it, and minutes--sometimes seconds!--later I'm craving the next hit.
That's my long way of saying: Yes, I agree with you and with this advice. Put the phone down after hitting the end of Page 1. Don't refresh the page every few minutes. Don't aimlessly open tab after tab with articles and videos you'll "eventually" get to (I have over five hundred tabs open right now on this laptop). There's no end in sight, and the road itself hasn't been too satisfying either.
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This reply makes me feel like you’re lame.
We are all lame on this blessed day after the Eternal September.
Unlike a Usenet group, there's not a topic silo. The cure for seeing 'the same old thing weariness' is submitting something that isn't the same old thing.