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HN is social media.

• imwillofficial 6y ago
  In a technical sense. It lacks the complexity and dark patterns that define what we commonly referred to as Social Media
• ssully 6y ago
  It's not the same. Twitter is designed to constantly pump content and social engagement at you. Once you start scrolling on Twitter, it takes some effort to put it down. HN is designed to show you 30 "trending" stories at a time, and its refresh rate is pretty slow compared to social media like Facebook, Twitter or Reddit. From personal experience, it's pretty easy to load up HN, read a handful of stories/comment threads, and close it. With Twitter, I utilize iOS's built in app blocking features to lock me out of Twitter after 30 minutes. Without that restriction, I have a hard time getting off Twitter on my own.
  • kjakm 6y ago
    >> HN is designed to show you 30 "trending" stories at a time, and its refresh rate is pretty slow compared to social media like Facebook, Twitter or Reddit. Yes - but tweets and Facebook posted each take seconds of your attention whereas a person can spend hours on a HN post, particularly when you leave multiple comments/replies and those receive replies.
• kbk 6y ago
  HN! I enjoy it but very oftem wate much time reading all those comments!
• nathanasmith 6y ago
  Twitter, Facebook, etc. seem a lot more personal to me where it's easy to get wrapped up in the minutia of other peoples' lives. In contrast, HN is a feed of articles with comments on the specific topic and strong moderation to keep it that way. The latter may be "social media" but not like the former.