What can you use instead of Google and Facebook? • Hacker News Board

Re: What can you use instead of Google and Facebook?

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Post by gonehome » Mon, Jan 27, 2020, 5:04 PM UTC

kerkeslager wrote: post #318

gonehome wrote: post #250

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I'd push that the real value of Twitter is less the additional data sources and more the available discussion that's possible with smart people doing interesting things that you would not have as much access to. Only mentioning this because I personally didn't understand the value of Twitter for a long time and didn't understand why people used it, but now I think I do.

Is this really unique to Twitter, though? I've had very little difficulty contacting, i.e. academics whose papers I've read, or programmers who have written blog posts. You do miss some randos interjecting into the conversation, but these interjections detract from the conversation more often than they contribute. When I'm conversing with Joe Armstrong I'm not interested in the interjections of some rando who did an…

The advantage of twitter is you get to interact with someone conversationally on things they tweet that they find interesting.

You also can learn unknown unknowns from things that are shared/discussed.

Direct email contact is great, but has a higher threshold to engage in. I think it’s different than twitter, it compliments it - but I think it’s also a lot less frequent because of that higher threshold.

Re: What can you use instead of Google and Facebook?

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Post by petersjt014 » Tue, Jan 28, 2020, 4:54 AM UTC

skyyler wrote: post #245

kerkeslager wrote: post #222

Search: DDG is the obvious answer. But also reducing usage of general search is a major life improvement. Wikipedia and Stack Overflow have reasonable built-in searches, as do most sites I view as reasonable sources of information. Most discoverability comes from feeds (blogs, HN, Reddit)--searching limits you to terms you've already thought of. General search seems to lead either to the places already mentioned in g…

>Facebook: Does this even need a replacement? Do you go to parties? Serious question. It's hard to discover events without Facebook these days. It's the only place some promoters advertise.

I just found one for events that actually looks good: https://joinmobilizon.org/en

Re: What can you use instead of Google and Facebook?

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Post by shreyshrey » Wed, Jan 29, 2020, 9:28 AM UTC

newscracker wrote: post #241

shreyshrey wrote: post #175

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Try AirSend ( https://www.airsend.io ). We use it for group communication both for personal and professional use. It is private. Create a channel and invite your friends. Thats it. Disclaimer: I work for them.

I had a very quick look. How is this different from Slack and how does it avoid the incessant notifications/interruptions/noise problem in Slack and similar platforms?

AirSend is custom built to address communication use case cases across organization boundaries. For instance, you don’t need to switch across workspaces to communicate with different parties. Unlike Slack It also provides the file context and task context in the same conversation space.

With respect to interruptions/noise it doesn’t have any advantages over Slack.

Re: What can you use instead of Google and Facebook?

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Post by benhurmarcel » Wed, Jan 29, 2020, 11:04 PM UTC

lucasverra wrote: post #261

fasicle wrote: post #184

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WhatsApp is massive in Europe, I'm currently in Spain and nobody uses anything else.

Argentina Brazil and France also are very Whats app dependent

France is actually a bit mixed between SMS, Whatsapp, and Facebook Messenger. My impression is that it's been shifting slowly to Whatsapp but it might be my environment.