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Somewhat off topic but: Is there an frontend for hacker news,twitter or reddit that filters out all the US political and culture stuff? I really can't see more

by i5heu 5y ago

Somewhat off topic but: Is there an frontend for hacker news,twitter or reddit that filters out all the US political and culture stuff? I really can't see more of this failed civilization that has the power to vaporize the earth in hours. I don't want to be reminded every single day.

sert121 5y ago
Hews has filters which allow you to do that. [Google Play Store]
pembrook 5y ago
It’s astonishing to me how little international competition there is in the social space (outside of China). You’re complaining about US platforms while implicitly acknowledging they are the best place you have to find interesting discussions online. It’s like the internet came along, offering opportunities to build these businesses to anyone in the world at super low cost, and most countries stuck their heads in the sand and said, “nah, this social media stuff is a fad, let’s stick to car manufacturing.” 10 years later the world is somehow under the “control” of US platforms? Huh? Did you know HN/Twitter/Reddit are websites you can just choose not to type into your address bar? Instead of complaining about the world you helped create, why not try changing it by starting a social platform for your local market and in your local language? These are all just simple CRUD apps. There’s about 600 “build a Reddit clone” YouTube tutorials you could follow to build the same thing as HN/Reddit/Twitter from a technical perspective.
- i5heu 5y ago
  „Don’t complain about hard to change tires! Build your own car!!!“ Do you even know what it means to run a social platform? Germany has had multiple social Platforms before Facebook. StudiVZ Kwick And even local ones like “Team Ulm” They are all dead. Because social platforms live from scale.
  - pembrook 5y ago
    > Do you even know what it means to run a social platform? Hacker news has added no features for like 10 years and has two moderators. TWO. Hacker news doesn’t do “growth.” It doesn’t send re-engagement emails. It doesn’t have an official app. It doesn’t run TV ads. Yet it’s one of the most visited sites on the web. Any below-average software engineer could build and deploy a clone within a single day. How is there not a German, Brazilian, etc. hacker news? It’s mind blowing to me. This isn’t even 1% the difficulty of “building your own car.” In fact, for many software engineers, building an HN clone would be easier than changing a tire. I’m insanely skeptical of the idea you can’t find enough demand for a German language Reddit/HN in a country of 85 million educated people.
    - anticodon 5y ago
      In Russia we do have a social network for nerds that is quite popular (habr.com). It's not like Hacker News though. We also have several other social networks, e.g. vk.com, which started as an exact clone of the first Facebook version (even layout and colors were the same). They're quite popular in Russia and former USSR republics. Although all platforms with user articles and user comments are somewhat poisoned by the US propaganda from US troll factories. I've already posted some comments on HN about this. E.g. if there's a single article about some Russian invention/Russian car/Russian plane/Russian website/Russian whatever on Facebook, YouTube, vk.com, habr.com, any other social network, there would be hundreds, even thousands, comments with uniform reponses like: - "It's garbage compared to the superior Western technology!" - "It would be 100x cheaper to build this in the West because of the lack of corruption!" - "It was stolen from the superior Western engineers and scientists. Wake up, sheeple: we, Russians, are not able to do anything, but to eat shitty soup with wooden spoon" This is highly annoying, but it's easy for US to fund such factories, given that US can print astronomical amount of money without providing any backing material/industry output, and there're millions of people in the former USSR republics with excellent knowledge of Russian and no job, willing to work for measly $100-200 per month. BTW, I'm also subscribed to some other countries social media (some SEA countries, India), and I guess US troll factories do their work there as well. Although it doesn't feel as targeted and intense as rusophobic propaganda that filled all the internet.
approxim8ion 5y ago
Would like something like this. I find most of the US political content that shows up, and the discussion around it here completely insufferable.

by i5heu 5y ago

sert121 5y ago

Hews has filters which allow you to do that. [Google Play Store]

pembrook 5y ago

It’s astonishing to me how little international competition there is in the social space (outside of China). You’re complaining about US platforms while implicitly acknowledging they are the best place you have to find interesting discussions online. It’s like the internet came along, offering opportunities to build these businesses to anyone in the world at super low cost, and most countries stuck their heads in the sand and said, “nah, this social media stuff is a fad, let’s stick to car manufacturing.” 10 years later the world is somehow under the “control” of US platforms? Huh? Did you know HN/Twitter/Reddit are websites you can just choose not to type into your address bar? Instead of complaining about the world you helped create, why not try changing it by starting a social platform for your local market and in your local language? These are all just simple CRUD apps. There’s about 600 “build a Reddit clone” YouTube tutorials you could follow to build the same thing as HN/Reddit/Twitter from a technical perspective.

i5heu 5y ago
„Don’t complain about hard to change tires! Build your own car!!!“ Do you even know what it means to run a social platform? Germany has had multiple social Platforms before Facebook. StudiVZ Kwick And even local ones like “Team Ulm” They are all dead. Because social platforms live from scale.
- pembrook 5y ago
  > Do you even know what it means to run a social platform? Hacker news has added no features for like 10 years and has two moderators. TWO. Hacker news doesn’t do “growth.” It doesn’t send re-engagement emails. It doesn’t have an official app. It doesn’t run TV ads. Yet it’s one of the most visited sites on the web. Any below-average software engineer could build and deploy a clone within a single day. How is there not a German, Brazilian, etc. hacker news? It’s mind blowing to me. This isn’t even 1% the difficulty of “building your own car.” In fact, for many software engineers, building an HN clone would be easier than changing a tire. I’m insanely skeptical of the idea you can’t find enough demand for a German language Reddit/HN in a country of 85 million educated people.
  - anticodon 5y ago
    In Russia we do have a social network for nerds that is quite popular (habr.com). It's not like Hacker News though. We also have several other social networks, e.g. vk.com, which started as an exact clone of the first Facebook version (even layout and colors were the same). They're quite popular in Russia and former USSR republics. Although all platforms with user articles and user comments are somewhat poisoned by the US propaganda from US troll factories. I've already posted some comments on HN about this. E.g. if there's a single article about some Russian invention/Russian car/Russian plane/Russian website/Russian whatever on Facebook, YouTube, vk.com, habr.com, any other social network, there would be hundreds, even thousands, comments with uniform reponses like: - "It's garbage compared to the superior Western technology!" - "It would be 100x cheaper to build this in the West because of the lack of corruption!" - "It was stolen from the superior Western engineers and scientists. Wake up, sheeple: we, Russians, are not able to do anything, but to eat shitty soup with wooden spoon" This is highly annoying, but it's easy for US to fund such factories, given that US can print astronomical amount of money without providing any backing material/industry output, and there're millions of people in the former USSR republics with excellent knowledge of Russian and no job, willing to work for measly $100-200 per month. BTW, I'm also subscribed to some other countries social media (some SEA countries, India), and I guess US troll factories do their work there as well. Although it doesn't feel as targeted and intense as rusophobic propaganda that filled all the internet.

approxim8ion 5y ago

Would like something like this. I find most of the US political content that shows up, and the discussion around it here completely insufferable.