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I remember moving to FB when my mom joined MySpace... I've since straight up quit social media, but I know folks that moved on to IG/Snap so they could broadcas
by losteric 9y ago
I remember moving to FB when my mom joined MySpace... I've since straight up quit social media, but I know folks that moved on to IG/Snap so they could broadcast content they didn't want certain social groups to see via FB. Of course now those social groups are joining the newer mediums.
Maybe social media platforms are inherently cyclical? At least under the "maximum growth" mindset:
* Innovators develop new platforms because they're unhappy with the old
* Early adopters like the new platform's features or community
* If it's good enough, the early majority slowly follows as knowledge disseminates
* New features and narratives are developed to attract the late majority and laggards
* The presence of those people, and tactics used to attract them, disenfranchise the early adopters
* Unhappiness rises until a new digital eden is discovered. Then the cycle repeats
- deathhand 9y agoMy personal journey: Slashdot, Digg, Reddit, HN
- time0ut 9y agoSlashdot, Reddit, Ars Technica, HN here, though I still read Ars every day.
- kbenson 9y agoThat makes me feel even more weird about going Slashdot, HN, sometimes-Reddit-but-mostly-HN. but I'm a bit weird with account creation. A service generally has to really prove its worth before I bother to create an account. I spent a couple years on HN before before bothering with an account and commenting, and it took way longer after that until I finally found some Reddit communities that made me want to create an account (and even now, I comment sparingly), even though I looked at it occassionally.
- matwood 9y ago> That makes me feel even more weird about going Slashdot, HN, sometimes-Reddit-but-mostly-HN. Same, except I started with CompuServe, then MSN before /. I visit a few reddits now, but I still don't really like the feel for some reason.
- DrScump 9y agoBased on other responses here, I guess I'd be dating myself to say mine started with Usenet.
- isostatic 9y agoCompuserve, MSN (no not messenger), Usenet, Slashdot, Fuck Beta, Soylent, HN
- brk 9y agoProdigy. BBSes. Usenet. /.. HN. Digg. Reddit. Gave up on /. around the time cmdrtaco got married. Gave up on digg sometime before the downfall. Have stuck with HN (was fairly early here). Reddit on and off.
- Baeocystin 9y agoMine was Quantum-Link.
- tyingq 9y agoBBS, Fidonet, Usenet, ... Someone will oneup this too with Arpanet or similar :)
- dbcurtis 9y agoI talked to the other hams in high school using Morse code and a vacuum tube transmitter. And get off my lawn. :) I've actually joked about building a Bluetooth telegraph key to make texting more concenient.
- epx 9y agoSlashdot, Gizmodo, Slashdot, HN here :)
- cecilpl2 9y agoSame here, with some Fark mixed in with Slashdot.
- HumanDrivenDev 9y agoI prefer proggit to HN these days. This place is mostly political commentary. The rules around engagement - while outwardly all about having a good conversation - just make this whole place feel passive aggressive and limp-wristed. A lot of the trolls and flaming on proggit is funny. HN feels too much like that episode of South Park where Kyle moves to San Francisco and everyone is huffing their own farts.
- Double_a_92 9y agoTrue. On HN i mostly don't even bother to write my own opinion if it's not in line with the mainstream. It will just get downvoted to death instead of sparking a discussion...
- colejohnson66 9y agoArsTechnica is even worse
- Clubber 9y agoAgree. Apparently it's ok to downvote people you disagree with, rather than crap arguments. I've mostly lost interest. Too bad too, it was really great for a while.
- meko 9y agoas someone stuck in dead comment hell for what I assume was massive down votes for writing an unpopular opinion, I feel that.
- voodootrucker 9y agoThe Register, slashdot, Ars Technica, Hacker News + Reddit
- justinzollars 9y agoI went from Digg to HN. Skipped Reddit. I find that place to be a bit nasty and a really bad source of information.
- rnd0 9y agoI skipped Digg; it seemed always seemed irrelevant to me (EDIT: that's just my personal perception -obviously I was wrong). My personal journey was: BBS -> Usenet -> Slashdot -> phpbb/vb forums -> Ars -> Reddit -> HN I haven't had any problems with Reddit as far as technical information goes, but I mostly go there for non-tech subs (eg AskHistorians). I absolutely get what you mean about it being nasty though -it took me years and years to break down and finally make an account because of the nastiness.
- irrational 9y agoYou need to skip the main/popular parts of Reddit and choose your subreddits carefully. I personally spend a lot of time in r/boardgames which is an amazing community.
- mark-r 9y agoMy social media experience started with the program I wrote myself, in 1975 for a 300-user timeshare system. That's the last time I was even close to the forefront. Didn't pay any attention to Myspace until it was obvious there was no need to. I've completely avoided Facebook because I've never trusted them.
- irrational 9y agoI've never heard of Digg, but I still read Slashdot (though it has certainly gone downhill since the 90s), Reddit (at least certain subreddits like r/boardgames), and HN daily.
- simonh 9y ago> I've never heard of Digg Ok, now I'm officially an old man.
- irrational 9y agoThe strange thing is, I've been using the WWW since 1995 (and the Internet since the late 80s). I don't know how I missed Digg, but it's not because I'm a newbie ;-)
- godzillabrennus 9y agoThis will date me but at one time Digg had a section that ranked how influential of a user you were on their platform. There was a superstar who used the alias "MrBabyMan" that ruled the roost. I was in the top 100 users back in those days. I loved their platform. It's a shame what they did with it. It is my opinion that Reddit has gotten away with a terrible UI compared to what Digg once had. If you liked Digg you might also like: https://barnacl.es https://barnacl.es https://voat.co/ https://voat.co/
- samstave 9y agoWhere is Kevin rose these days?
- icebraining 9y agoHe's been doing a podcast since 2016: https://www.kevinrose.com/ https://www.kevinrose.com/
- DonHopkins 9y agoAMRAD BBS, Bruce's NorthStar Horizon BBS, NBS-TIP, MIT-DM ITS, ZORK, UNTALK, Essex MUD, INFO-MICRO, SF-LOVERS, ITS-LOVERS, UNIX-HATERS, BANDYKIN, TANSTAAFL, LECTROIDS... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15080221 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15080221 Keith F. Lynch wrote up some interesting history of the net from his perspective: http://keithlynch.net/history.net.html http://keithlynch.net/history.net.html
- nol13 9y agoSlashdot, Digg, Reddit, HN... Soylent News!
- cft 9y agoThey are cyclical inasmuch as TV shows are cyclical. Problem is that FB has become more like a studio, buying up emergent shows.
- superquest 9y agoBenedict Evans tweet: https://twitter.com/BenedictEvans/status/955539670103859200?s=19 https://twitter.com/BenedictEvans/status/955539670103859200?...
- ghostbrainalpha 9y ago*For anyone who has Twitter blocked All social apps grow until you need a newsfeed All newsfeeds grow until you need an algorithmic feed All algorithmic feeds grow until you get fed up of not seeing stuff/seeing the wrong stuff & leave for new apps with less overload All those new apps grow until...
- racer-v 9y agoI feel like the missing step is "until you need the ability to create custom filters to see what you want".
- SllX 9y agoThis is basically what a heavily curated set of reddit subscriptions are. I know others do the same with Twitter except I find that doesn't work for me because you're following people rather than on-topic communities and nobody sticks to the topics you're following them for in the first place. Personally, I kept getting stuck with a feed full of useless virtue signaling with some of what I wanted to see peppered in every now and then. Personally I think that's why a site like reddit has more staying power than a site like Twitter. Twitter has too much of your identity invested in it while reddit has a place for nearly everyone.
- cannonedhamster 9y agoI agree with the Twitter comment but can't stand Reddit. It's a site that promotes trolls and actively punishes people for being civil. Add to that completely tone deaf policies from the owners and I just cannot support that site. The mods there are also terrible cretins that rule over their fiefdoms with whatever bias they feel wont to.
- ams6110 9y ago> Maybe social media platforms are inherently cyclical? I think so, because a huge part of social interaction is either being a trend-setter or following trends. Either one of those requires constant change.
- JauntyHatAngle 9y agoThere are a lot of parallels here to the HN favourite - Geeks, MOP's and sociopaths. https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths It's not a perfect analogy in this case, but it definitely hits a lot of your key points.
- Thlom 9y agoLooking at my Facebook feed it’s mostly companies, “personalities”, a few groups and a handful of people over 50. Everyone else is using Facebook mainly for messenger and event planning. Everything else that Facebook were used for (pictures, status updates) is being handled by Instagram and Snapchat.