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What's the difference between hn and a facebook group?

• chrisco255 6y ago
  HN does not have 2 billion users and teams of thousands of developers working to exploit psychology and an ad monopoly to keep you on HN.
• nogabebop23 6y ago
  HN is one website with a very small audience of people who understand how it fits into the broader internet. A FB group is what a much, much larger set of less experienced users have been taught is "how you communicate with your tribe". That's not only very different but chillingly scary, IMO
• arnvald 6y ago
  HN allows you to see all the content without registration. Facebook pushes login pop-ups even on pages of restaurants etc (which often replace independent websites these days)
• jasode 6y ago
  >What's the difference between hn and a facebook group? - creating a discussion forum like HN -- whether via PG's custom Lisp programming or installing/hosting software like PhpBB/Vbulletin is way more difficult for non-techie users. Compare that to the easy steps of creating a new Facebook group.[1] - HN is a mixture of real names, pseudonymous, and anonymous identities. Facebook is mostly real names. - HN has no integrated calendar of related events, no rich media like photos and videos, no realtime chat with group members. Facebook groups can include that. Yes, HN demographic hates all that distracting "noise" but Facebook demographic does not. [1] https://www.facebook.com/help/167970719931213 https://www.facebook.com/help/167970719931213