In this thread, there are a lot of people saying Reddit and HN are their social media, and it is not the same as FB or Instagram. I think we should distinguish

In this thread, there are a lot of people saying Reddit and HN are their social media, and it is not the same as FB or Instagram. I think we should distinguish between social media that uses algorithms to promote content and serve ads from those sites that don't. HN is definitely promoting something (they advertise one product: getting the best startups to do YC). But, AFAIK, HN does not algorithmically push content to me based on what I have indicated I care about. That's the dangerous precedent FB set. They are crafting a world for you, and you are unaware of it. And, even FB employees probably don't know, they just know that they get their bonuses so they can finally buy a house in the bay area when they tweak that algorithm and the advertiser success rates hit the metric for the quarter.