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In what way exactly are you comparing tiktok to HN?
by bzb3 6y ago
In what way exactly are you comparing tiktok to HN?
- chvid 6y agoYeah. You are right. There are big diffferences. For one: You can joke on TikTok ...
- solarhoma 6y agoHe must be delusional. Tiktok is for dancing videos as far as I can tell. The parent comment and down are taking stances that I would never expect on HN. Something is off, there is nothing ‘refreshing’ about tiktok.
- Threeve303 6y agoHe has a point though, HN has a serious lack of dancing videos.
- 082349872349872 6y agoTo be fair nerdcore doesn't attract chorus lines: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fow7iUaKrq4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fow7iUaKrq4 Closest I can get to HN ⋂ dancing is 1:34-1:48 in Virus' "You should ask" (where the video is about the difficulty of source attribution on a LAN, let alone an entire internet) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVdoQ2fmIYs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVdoQ2fmIYs
- SpicyLemonZest 6y agoI think you're underestimating how user-specific the feed is. I recently uninstalled it, but I was getting 5% dancing videos at best (worst?). The vast majority of my feed was animal videos, comedy skits, video games, and anime clips.
- StevePerkins 6y agoI don't agree with the parent comment's characterization, but I see sites like HN and Reddit described as "social media" all the time. For those us whose Internet citizenship pre-dates Friendster and MySpace, the term "social media" has a particular meaning. But for many younger "social media natives", the term basically just means "any website or app where you can make posts or comments".
- mercer 6y agoInteresting observation. I grew up with shitty (but fun!) phpBB forums and the fancier vBulletin, but wouldn't categorize them as 'social media'. The first of those were probably cu2, MySpace, and eventually Facebook/Twitter/etc. When I think about it, it seems like a somewhat arbitrary distinction to make. I suppose the main difference is that the forums were self-hosted and I could have different identities for each one. And while I generally reused the same username, the fact that it wasn't just a matter of 'clicking on my profile' to see all my activity was something I really liked. Maybe to me the term "social media" has come to mean "social media /companies/"? That doesn't quite satisfy, but it really does feel like the primary difference is that on these forums I knew that they were generally not run for profit, and the 'gods' were just individuals who volunteered their time to host or moderate. It felt safer, and more personal.