Tell HN: I want to see the same moon as you • Hacker News Board

Re: Tell HN: I want to see the same moon as you

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Post by myst » Sat, Sep 05, 2026, 1:57 PM UTC

UnderABlueMoon wrote: post #4

myst wrote: post #2

Offline is a shared experience.

I often think about MySpace - how it was so anchored in the real world. It was a social media about real life . We don’t have anything like that. Closest thing is maybe Yelp but it’s totally separated from being social. They have made it into a kind of Yellow Pages with comments. But MySpace did ticket sales and music streaming and people were designing their profiles in wildly creative ways, there were games, news,…

Having offline for free, why would we need online for a price?

Re: Tell HN: I want to see the same moon as you

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Post by al_borland » Sat, Sep 05, 2026, 8:41 PM UTC

Funny enough, just this morning someone started telling me about a video they say on YouTube about tracing all the power lines in Red Dead Redemption 2, and I had also seen the video and was able to know exactly what he was talking about and discus it.

I find people I have stuff in common with will also get a similar feed. I sent something to a co-worker last week, and he said he had just sent the same thing to another one of our co-workers and hour earlier.

There was a period of time where this happened so often it became a bit boring. Reddit about 15 years ago. Everyone has already seen everything we tried to bring up to talk about, so there wasn’t much to say. It was a lot of, “did you see…”, “yep”, “oh… what about…”, “yep”.

Re: Tell HN: I want to see the same moon as you

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Post by TFNA » Sat, Sep 05, 2026, 10:11 PM UTC

kypro wrote: post #8

> The Internet used to be like that. Not really... Even back in the Web 1.0 days people didn't visit the same websites unless they had the same interests. And even today this exists – I'm seeing the same HN homepage for example, and this is true of most sites. I think what you're describing was much more of a thing in the 80s and 90s with TV. People genuinely would tune into the same programs as each other every nigh…

In the early days of YouTube when uploads were still few, there were videos (often shock ones) that got views from a substantial slice of the American public. It was as unifying an experience as TV.

Re: Tell HN: I want to see the same moon as you

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Post by archonis » Sun, Sep 06, 2026, 12:58 AM UTC

kypro wrote: post #8

> The Internet used to be like that. Not really... Even back in the Web 1.0 days people didn't visit the same websites unless they had the same interests. And even today this exists – I'm seeing the same HN homepage for example, and this is true of most sites. I think what you're describing was much more of a thing in the 80s and 90s with TV. People genuinely would tune into the same programs as each other every nigh…

In early days we all saw the same ads, uphill, both ways.

Re: Tell HN: I want to see the same moon as you

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Post by brudgers » Sun, Sep 06, 2026, 5:02 AM UTC

The Internet used to be like that.

Once, there were approximately three TV stations.

Re: Tell HN: I want to see the same moon as you

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Post by YeItsOva » Mon, Sep 07, 2026, 2:52 AM UTC

brudgers wrote: post #15

The Internet used to be like that. Once, there were approximately three TV stations.

We're basically right back there.

Re: Tell HN: I want to see the same moon as you

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Post by wkmcyz » Mon, Sep 07, 2026, 7:32 AM UTC

Interestingly, there is a famous ancient Chinese poem with the line, “May we both live long and share the beauty of the moon, though a thousand miles apart,” which is very similar to what you said.

Re: Tell HN: I want to see the same moon as you

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Post by brudgers » Tue, Sep 08, 2026, 3:28 AM UTC

YeItsOva wrote: post #16

brudgers wrote: post #15

The Internet used to be like that. Once, there were approximately three TV stations.

We're basically right back there.

When there were three channels, a lot of people watched the same shows at the same time.

There were common experiences, not personally tailored/calculated/curated feeds.

Re: Tell HN: I want to see the same moon as you

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Post by blamedang » Tue, Sep 08, 2026, 10:28 PM UTC

TFNA wrote: post #13

kypro wrote: post #8

> The Internet used to be like that. Not really... Even back in the Web 1.0 days people didn't visit the same websites unless they had the same interests. And even today this exists – I'm seeing the same HN homepage for example, and this is true of most sites. I think what you're describing was much more of a thing in the 80s and 90s with TV. People genuinely would tune into the same programs as each other every nigh…

In the early days of YouTube when uploads were still few, there were videos (often shock ones) that got views from a substantial slice of the American public. It was as unifying an experience as TV.

Try ebaums. YouTube lol

Re: Tell HN: I want to see the same moon as you

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Post by carlosjobim » Wed, Sep 09, 2026, 1:26 PM UTC

If you want somebody else to decide what should be streamed straight into your brain, then just turn on the TV or the radio. That's exactly what you're looking for, and what billions of people prefer over social media feeds.