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Re: I deleted my social media accounts

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Post by nearlyepic »

eGQjxkKF6fif wrote: post #232
dehrmann wrote: post #137

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What if I told you Hacker News is social media?

Rather like minded nerds than fear mongering, fake, AI generated, influencer, 'look at how amazing my life is', 'buy this', new age spirituality 'let go of what doesn't serve you' narcissistic brainwashing the algo machines are pushing. I like technology. I like making things I love and others can enjoy. I like when others make something they think is cool and love and enjoy and I can enjoy them too. That's why this…

HN, famously devoid of narcissistic personalities and 'look how amazing my life is' and 'buy this' posting

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Post by 4dregress »

scarface_74 wrote: post #226

I think commenters here are missing out on one beneficial part of social media - Facebook groups and communities of interest especially private, moderated groups. Broadcast and discussions are a perfect use case for it. And people talk about how bad Facebook is, LinkedIn is far worse. Everyone is trying to be a “thought leader” and no one is genuine on it. I have a decent LinkedIn Profile with recommendations, up to…

To me, LinkedIn is nothing more than a Job advertisement board where you open yourself up to being spammed by the recruiter hoards.

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Post by insane_dreamer »

chasebank wrote: post #192
insane_dreamer wrote: post #180

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are several key things that make HN different: - no followers / following (no incentive to increase engagement) - no notifications of responses to comments (maybe there's a way to do this with RSS but at least it's not obvious) - no ads - no endless feed HN is much more like an RSS feed of interesting articles, where people can leave comments -- there is some back and forth (as in this case) but not a lot; it's…

No ads? The majority of hn submissions are ads! Comments too.

> majority

be serious

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Post by insane_dreamer »

hipadev23 wrote: post #185
insane_dreamer wrote: post #180

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are several key things that make HN different: - no followers / following (no incentive to increase engagement) - no notifications of responses to comments (maybe there's a way to do this with RSS but at least it's not obvious) - no ads - no endless feed HN is much more like an RSS feed of interesting articles, where people can leave comments -- there is some back and forth (as in this case) but not a lot; it's…

HN may survive if upvote/downvotes are removed, but until then it will continue to be astroturfed and manipulated heavily to push narratives and subconsciously teach the startup/hacker community which opinions are favored and disfavored today.

you could argue that the home page is "manipulated" (though I don't think it's as nefarious as you suggest), but you can just as easily view all posts in chronological order instead of the home page; upvoting of articles interesting to see what other users find relevant / useful but wouldn't affect.

I browse the titles and click on what seems interesting to me, regardless of the number of upvotes.

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Post by Refusing23 »

nindalf wrote: post #38

This advice to quit social media is always a hit on HN. When I was 10 years younger I read the same thing on HN, was thoroughly convinced and quit social media. I even followed the advice of trying to stay in touch by email. Sure. Turns out that a lot of people I knew posted huge life updates that I completely missed out on. I asked them why they didn’t tell me and they were confused. They said the posted it on socia…

yep

i deleted fb 10ish years ago.

and since then every family event that had been planned, was done on fb (just like before) and i find out about it by a text from my sister.

the trick is to not give a shit. Coz they don't.

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Post by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK »

jjulius wrote: post #98
nindalf wrote: post #38

This advice to quit social media is always a hit on HN. When I was 10 years younger I read the same thing on HN, was thoroughly convinced and quit social media. I even followed the advice of trying to stay in touch by email. Sure. Turns out that a lot of people I knew posted huge life updates that I completely missed out on. I asked them why they didn’t tell me and they were confused. They said the posted it on socia…

This is just said from my perspective and I understand that others might not share it - Fine with me. They're acquaintances. Nobody has 200+ "friends", we have a handful of them. Is it nice to know that someone I hung out with a handful of times twenty years ago but otherwise don't really know and haven't said a word to in a decade made a big life change? Sure, I guess, but for the most part it has absolutely no bear…

I was applying for a job once and recruiter told me I need to have at least 100 Facebook friends to be hired. Played Mafia for a couple of days and got 400 "friends". Was hired and HR presented me at the company meeting as a social media star)

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Post by larodi »

nindalf wrote: post #38

This advice to quit social media is always a hit on HN. When I was 10 years younger I read the same thing on HN, was thoroughly convinced and quit social media. I even followed the advice of trying to stay in touch by email. Sure. Turns out that a lot of people I knew posted huge life updates that I completely missed out on. I asked them why they didn’t tell me and they were confused. They said the posted it on socia…

Dropped FB for HN in 2017... and eventually I find myself now again on X for some #genaury stuff which is basically nowhere else to find. Happily most reasonable tech stuff lists on HN, some interesting stuff on MR, both being more-or-less a social network (of sorts) in a 90s disguise.

Conventional media can be ok for casual reading/scrolling, but feels increasingly out-of-touch. Interestingly these days cnn, bbc, dw, en, and aj list different headlines, which is not what it was 15 y.ago.

Still I'd strongly advise against all push media, and in particular Meta's products which pose a very high-risk of (screen) addiction thanks to hundreds of hidden retention mechanisms.

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Post by h0l0cube »

Eextra953 wrote: post #247
kouru225 wrote: post #244

Ngl if I were Zuckerberg I'd be doing the exact same thing. I feel like the majority of people are severely underestimating the impact this last election will have and still are in denial. If you think he's doing the wrong thing it's cause you don't know what the consequences will be if he doesn't do this.

Just curious as to what you think the consequences could be if he didn't?

The tone of the ghost stories would change to how 'it would have been better if only _ happened instead' instead of 'it would have been worse if _ happened' absent of any reasoning, evidence, precedents, etc.

Re: I deleted my social media accounts

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Post by veunes »

A decision to quit - it’s not easy! I deleted Instagram. It feels like even my mind has been cleared. I don’t want to and won’t go back. And the alternative to slow down and share thoughts more intentionally sounds good.
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