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And yet here we are on Hacker News, a social platform for news stories. I honestly have never used a feed aggregator, I used Slashdot, then Reddit, and now a m
by com2kid 8y ago
And yet here we are on Hacker News, a social platform for news stories.
I honestly have never used a feed aggregator, I used Slashdot, then Reddit, and now a mix of Reddit and HN.
Having a filter of some sort is really useful.
- guybedo 8y agoNot sure HN qualifies as a social platform, and i got there through RSS anyway :-) Used to love Slashdot, now spending more time on HN too i guess and following some reddits through RSS. I even follow some Facebook pages through RSS so i minimize the time and energy spent on FB.
- daveFNbuck 8y agoThese both serve different purposes. RSS is for sources you like and want to see everything from. Social aggregators are for getting exposed to things from sites you're not already aware of or aren't usually interested in. I want to read every XKCD comic, so I subscribe to its RSS feed. I like to read a little tech news when I'm bored, so I go to Hacker News.
- shakna 8y agoAnd I'm here because this story appeared in my RSS feed. I 'consume' other people's thoughts and opinions via HN, after 'consuming' the story via my feed. Different purposes.
- zaarn 8y agoAlmost all stories I comment on have at some point appeared in the HN RSS Feed, which contains basically stories that appear on the frontpage. Since I poll every 5 minute I also catch a lot of stories that only briefly are frontpage.