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Mind sharing why? Is it the features or something else? When I think back 20 years to forums, HN feels most like those to me. It feels nothing like what most p

• optimalsolver 5y ago
  Out of curiosity, do you condider Reddit to be social media? To me, HN is just a well-maintained subreddit (pseudonymous, karma-based voting system, recency bias, etc.)
  • betenoire 5y ago
    Hmm... Yes. But I can't make a cogent argument why lol. 13 year club here, the Reddit I think of is probably not aligned with what Reddit thinks of itself anymore.
• scarecrowbob 5y ago
  I feel that the sine qua non of "social media" is user generated content conducted between specific users: tied to specific accounts, where users have one-to-one public conversations and those conversations are foregrounded as the site's content. I do feel that message forums/ usenet/ bbs/ etc meet those criteria in various ways and I do consider them forms of social media. I know that this seems overly broad to some people (and they have good reasons even if I don't agree with them in the end). I don't think "social media" is a pejorative in the way a lot of folks use the term... I mean, sure, HN deals with a lot of the horrible parts of what can be done with that media in healthier ways than, say, myspace did. But just because HN makes it harder to track specific users doesn't mean that it can't be done... people very much do have specific accounts here, and I have often looked up past commentary these users have generated to get more context about their points.