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If it took much longer than that for bugs like this, all of the HN doomsday posts about the Facebook mass exodus might actually come true
by aje403 9y ago
If it took much longer than that for bugs like this, all of the HN doomsday posts about the Facebook mass exodus might actually come true
- stochastic_monk 9y agoI think people leaving facebook en masse would be a good thing (TM) for society, not a doomsday. Fewer echo chambers, less disinformation, and people forced to make effort to contact each other.
- clarkenheim 9y agoIt will only be replaced with another echo chamber.
- lttlrck 9y agoHopefully multiple smaller ones.
- murukesh_s 9y agoAlready there - whatsapp, instagram oops...
- praneshp 9y agoHacker news....
- stochastic_monk 9y agoThis effect is partially muted by the fact that one can only see the vote status of one’s own post. There is still a tendency toward conformity, but at least the suggestion to vote with other readers isn’t apparent like it is on many content aggregators/discussion media.
- coolso 9y agoExcept downvoted posts here turn gray.
- hedora 9y agoWhich is why I make a point of logging in and upvoting the non-egregious ones.
- UncleEntity 9y agoYeah but I can predict pretty accurately which of my posts will get downvoted and they all have the same thing in common; they challenge the left-leaning groupthink common here. Some might claim they get downvoted because they are "low quality" to which I'd retort why spend a lot of time crafting a "quality" reply when you know it's going to be suppressed?
- mercer 9y agoWhile it might just be me, I find myself downvoting your comments purely because I find them low-quality noise (or worse) that I'd rather not see more of. I even tagged you as 'shitty commenter', which I don't do this too often. But with some commenters I'm just amazed at how they can consistently keep this up without tiring of it.
- bittermang 9y agoOh, look at them rush to White Knight their own bubble. "Not OUR echo chamber, no! We're different, you see, because reasons."
- FractalLP 9y agoHacker News is at least somewhat informative in the tech sphere. It tends to favor more esoteric technology like Lisp in lieu of things like Java & JavaScript which is far more favored on Reddit/Programming. Politics are mostly left leaning mixed with some Libertarian views. There is a good splattering of non tech stuff as well (music, art, literature, linguistics...etc). I'd say it's a far cry from fake news and cat videos.
- IIAOPSW 9y agoIts cause of the people. The more popular something is the worse it gets until eventually its all cats and outrage-culture "fake news". The medium is irrelevant. Media sucks because you* suck. *The collective societal you, not the particular individual you.
- waterhouse 9y agoI think some studies have shown that the same set of people (or, let's say, people randomly assigned to one group or the other) can have very different behavior depending on the situation they're in. It seems at least possible that a forum could maintain its rules and norms while people join... though received wisdom says that if too many join at once, then the norms can be broken.
- FractalLP 9y agoYea, but HackerNews is really only going to appeal to a select group of people. Computer illiterate folk aren't going to be talking about compilers, lisp, APL, Smalltalk, blockchain, or the other 1000 compsci things that come up on here daily.
- tomcooks 9y agoScuttlebutt, mastodon, Riot, gab, stack overflow, d.tube, the list goes on
- rimliu 9y agoSome crtical thinking would be good for a society. Tools are just tools.
- r3bl 9y agoI've been following Josip's work on and off for years now (he's probably on every big white hat hall of fame there is), and I'm pretty sure he wouldn't go public even if it took them a month to fix this. If he said in a public blog post that it took them a month to fix something so simple, I could see the shit storm aimed at Facebook on social networks (including here), but I highly doubt any user would be compromised.