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Also, is Hacker News social media?

• martin_a 5y ago
  User generated content, comments, ratings. 3/3 would say so, yes. :-)
  • Nicksil 5y ago
    >User generated content, comments, ratings. 3/3 would say so, yes. :-) That's not great criteria for determining if something's "social media". All those things you listed were part of websites long before social media came along.
    • lapetitejort 5y ago
      My litmus test for what is and is not social media depends on how many people use their real name as handles, and how actively the platform promotes real names. Facebook, nearly 100%, Twitter, less so; reddit and HN, pretty low. Real names transform the old forum/IRC chat room into social media.
• Nicksil 5y ago
  No, it's a forum.
• nonameiguess 5y ago
  There is no way to intentionally follow specific users or customize your view of the site depending on who is a part of your personal network. There is no personal network at all. Those seem to me to be the defining features of social media. Hacker News is just a crowd-sourced link aggregator with comments that requires persistent accounts so the links and comments can't be easily spammed. Of course, so is Reddit, but I personally don't think Reddit should be considered social media, either. You can personalize your content view there, but the personalization is based on content topics, not the following of specific users.
• unraveller 5y ago
  Sure is, I'd go one step further, if you can't stand having your karma hidden from you (via self-imposed adblocker rule) then you are still addicted to the social network feedback loop and somewhere making compromise for it. news.ycombinator.com###me news.ycombinator.com##td:nth-of-type(3) > .pagetop