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Almost no one cares if your site is not on social media

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Re: Almost no one cares if your site is not on social media

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Post by roncesvalles »

weinzierl wrote: post #49
outime wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I find it funny that if I were to read your comment outside of this website, I could most likely identify it as a HN comment because it mentions barely-used sites popular in HN (such as Bluesky, Signal, Jitsi, IRC, etc), but skips mentioning actually popular ones everywhere else (like Snapchat, Facebook/Messenger, Instagram, TikTok, etc).

Oh, I agree so much, but I am not sure about your examples either: Snapchat - does it even exist anymore? It had its time, but personally I don't know anyone still there. Same with Facebook Messenger, which has completely been replaced by WhatsApp in my (non-nerd) circles. I thought about including TikTok but it would be more in the - YouTube, TikTok, Vimeo, PeerTube category. To me, these are borderline social media…

The social media landscape vastly differs from country to country. WhatsApp is basically not a thing in the US outside of immigrant/expat circles.

None of the other ones that you listed are popular in the US either with the exception of Twitter, Zoom and Slack (and the latter two aren't social media platforms).

Re: Almost no one cares if your site is not on social media

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Post by naravara »

medstrom wrote: post #130
pixelmonkey wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yea, I agree. Part of the reason I used "episodic" as a category was to uninstall 100% of my episodic apps and only reinstall when/if needed.

Venmo and Uber are also episodic. Personally I'd lump D and E into a big folder, no need to constantly be reinstalling the same thing.

iOS at least offloads the seldom used apps, so it sort of automates the pruning. You’re basically left with a quick-link to redownload the thing.

Re: Almost no one cares if your site is not on social media

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Post by ravelfan »

TheAceOfHearts wrote: post #85

Social media activity seems to be really bad for certain kinds of content. On Twitter I frequently see art posts with thousands of likes and less than 10 comments. And inevitably a few of those replies will be pussy-in-bio spam bots. Even on Threads, accounts with hundreds of thousands of followers often end up getting between 10 and 20 comments as well. It seems like if you want engagement you have to post some sort…

What can one really comment about art though? "That is beautiful" or "That is shit".

I love art but could care less about the field of art criticism.

I use to have a geocities personal site on the old internet and it is not like anyone ever looked at that either.

The real difference is I don't remember anyone caring about the number of myspace followers a person had. It only mattered who was in your top 6 or however many it was in your top list. Obviously, that is because there was no money to be made with having connections to people you didn't know.

Re: Almost no one cares if your site is not on social media

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Post by flurdy »

poulsbohemian wrote: post #122
weinzierl wrote: post #81

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That is interesting. I have a teenage daughter too and never heard Snapchat mentioned. Some of here friends are on TikTok though, but we don't allow it. Communication is mostly iMessage, old fashioned phone calls and the MS Teams provided by her school.

I get the sense that Snapchat is mostly the current 18-27 crowd, but not necessarily the 13-18 crowd. Would be curious to hear the experiences of other parents in this regard.

Mine is in the younger category, Snapchat is their main communication tool, even for calls. She reaches her screentime limit on it very quickly.

Re: Almost no one cares if your site is not on social media

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Post by flurdy »

rpgbr wrote: post #4
moravak1984 wrote: post #3

I'd argue that Mastodon and Telegram hardly count as social media (and 450 contacts on WhatsApp... come on) If someone with a site on X/WhatsApp/Instagram/FB repeats the experiment, then we might see something interesting.

OP here. I dropped an X/Twittter account in the end of 2022 with ~17k followers and… really, nothing changed. Since then, it’s safe to assume that things worsened there and everywhere. Google is the only traffic referrer that still matters. See: https://sparktoro.com/blog/who-sends-traffic-on-the-web-and-...

Pre and post Elon is a big difference for Twitter. Before I would post a tweet with links to my blog and would see an increase in both metrics and responses to it. Post Elon I don't think anyone even sees the tweet as I am not a paying twitter subscriber, and most people that would respond etc have left. And about 2 people see my Mastadon post.

Re: Almost no one cares if your site is not on social media

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Post by TheAceOfHearts »

ravelfan wrote: post #133
TheAceOfHearts wrote: post #85

Social media activity seems to be really bad for certain kinds of content. On Twitter I frequently see art posts with thousands of likes and less than 10 comments. And inevitably a few of those replies will be pussy-in-bio spam bots. Even on Threads, accounts with hundreds of thousands of followers often end up getting between 10 and 20 comments as well. It seems like if you want engagement you have to post some sort…

What can one really comment about art though? "That is beautiful" or "That is shit". I love art but could care less about the field of art criticism. I use to have a geocities personal site on the old internet and it is not like anyone ever looked at that either. The real difference is I don't remember anyone caring about the number of myspace followers a person had. It only mattered who was in your top 6 or however…

Getting a bit of encouragement and positive feedback can be very motivating. It doesn't cost the giver anything and it can really have a positive impact on the receiving party.

Most recently I received a comment from someone asking to buy some of my art and I felt incredibly flattered.

Like we shouldn't be constantly seeking validation from external sources, but we're inherently social creatures so getting a bit of positive feedback is good.

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