Bluesky
Reddit
ArsTechnica
Mastodon never catched on for me
The rest is local news or sports
Ask HN: Where do you browse and chat outside of here?
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Re: Ask HN: Where do you browse and chat outside of here?
#22Mainly The Guardian and Mastodon
Other sites include 404Media, Wired, The Newyorker, BBC News.
Re: Ask HN: Where do you browse and chat outside of here?
#23A little bit on TwitchTV, a little bit on Discord, and a little on Reddit, but, honestly, I feel pretty lonely on the Internet these days. I've been on Reddit for over 15 years and yeah, it feels quite different than it did early on. I can't really stand browsing r/all or r/popular at all. I miss the days of having 255 friends on AIM, trout slaps on well-populated mIRC channels, and never-ending threads on niche Ulti…
> I've been on Reddit for over 15 years and yeah, it feels quite different than it did early on. I can't really stand browsing r/all or r/popular at all.
It's because the age gap, the average redditor is way too young. In a discussion the other day an user sent me to "get bullied at school"... I am in my 40s.
Re: Ask HN: Where do you browse and chat outside of here?
#24In my house and at friends houses, sometimes in cafes or the local maker space.
Re: Ask HN: Where do you browse and chat outside of here?
#25What do you mean when you say that Reddit is too mainstream for you? I mostly read RSS feeds and hang out on Mastodon. I don't really chat anywhere anymore, not since I left the last IRC channel years ago. I occasionally miss it, but haven't found anything that comes close enough.
Not sure if this is what they meant, but Reddit is just Facebook for younger people. The outrage is the same, the click bait, the like hunting and the general attention seeking. There's some good stuff, absolutely, but the same is true for Facebook.
If you're not part of a sub-culture, and a narrow one at that, then Reddit content is pretty much your run of the mill click bait. Just like with Facebook, I think that the good Reddit content is either in private or really niche sub-reddits. Things like AskReddit, Politics, AITA or any of the subreddits linked at the top of site, they are all pretty Facebook like content, just spewing out much faster.
Re: Ask HN: Where do you browse and chat outside of here?
#26Re: Ask HN: Where do you browse and chat outside of here?
#27Mastodon and RSS feeds. I’m also trying to write more long form stuff, and that definitely helps keeping conversations going. I check out Lemmy maybe once or twice a month.
What RSS feeds do you subscribe to?
Re: Ask HN: Where do you browse and chat outside of here?
#28This question comes up from time to time, only to prove on each iteration there is nothing like HN.
Surely there's a sampling bias here.
The most likely people to respond on a thread like this are those spending the most time on HN, and thus least likely to be spending it elsewhere. The user sharing time between 5 communities might not even see the thread.
Re: Ask HN: Where do you browse and chat outside of here?
#29A little bit on TwitchTV, a little bit on Discord, and a little on Reddit, but, honestly, I feel pretty lonely on the Internet these days. I've been on Reddit for over 15 years and yeah, it feels quite different than it did early on. I can't really stand browsing r/all or r/popular at all. I miss the days of having 255 friends on AIM, trout slaps on well-populated mIRC channels, and never-ending threads on niche Ulti…
> I've been on Reddit for over 15 years and yeah, it feels quite different than it did early on. I can't really stand browsing r/all or r/popular at all. It's because the age gap, the average redditor is way too young. In a discussion the other day an user sent me to "get bullied at school"... I am in my 40s.
Hahahahaha, the users on popular websites nowadays are usually younger
Re: Ask HN: Where do you browse and chat outside of here?
#30Bluesky and a couple discord channels related to entomology and botany. I really like each at the moment. My usage is pretty limited, and the quality of time spent is really high. I feel like HN is the same. Since dropping Reddit and Twitter my internet usage has been a lot more positive.
I found the discord channels somewhat by chance. When you’re into specific things and ask a lot of questions, inevitably you’ll wind up meeting similar people.
As for Bluesky, I was just too burned out on Twitter and was willing to give something else a shot. My feed was initially a bunch of mycological photography, birding photography, far more moderate and constructive politics, and some lists of people in tech that I seeded my following list with. It was so much easier to read and engage with, and the transition was very natural. I’m glad I made the change.
Bluesky has led to discovering a few substacks that I enjoy a lot too. I definitely wouldn’t have found them on Twitter.