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HN is/was a social media site? And discord a general social media site? From what I’ve seen of discord it comes across as a site for gamers around gaming world

HN is/was a social media site? And discord a general social media site? From what I’ve seen of discord it comes across as a site for gamers around gaming world and then proceeding to include also those “interest groups” (ie eating Telegram’s lunch) where those people are active who keep messaging incessantly, memes, LOL kinda things and all. (I mean of course in a pedantic way a lot of site of the Internet will be considered social media sites but we are talking about Facebook specifically here)

SllX 5y ago
Yes, these are social networks. Arguably even a vBulletin forum is a social network and I’ve met some of my best friends in life on those when I was a young lad. If you can post somewhere as a person, build a reputation or identity there, interact with a community and build relationships: congrats, you have a social network. The mechanics of me replying to you on HN, sending an iMessage to a girl, sending a Slack message to my boss or posting to a group in Discord are nearly identical but the people and the intricacies of the software differ. This is one of the reasons I’ve never been a fan of the “Facebook is a social media monopoly” line of thinking, at least in America. Just doesn’t work if you sit down and think about it, it’s just another website that does a few things better than some others and they are massively successful because of what they’ve chosen to be good at. HN is a lot like /., Digg or very early Reddit to me, and it makes sense because it was started with a lot of the same ideas towards the end of that era, but with a purpose to serve Y Combinator’s needs.
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giancarlostoro 5y ago
HN is a social network as much as LinkedIn. They might not look the same and have the same features, but people connect with each other in varying ways on here. Discord it depends, but if you join the right communities, it's like joining the perfect Facebook Groups.

SllX 5y ago

Yes, these are social networks. Arguably even a vBulletin forum is a social network and I’ve met some of my best friends in life on those when I was a young lad. If you can post somewhere as a person, build a reputation or identity there, interact with a community and build relationships: congrats, you have a social network. The mechanics of me replying to you on HN, sending an iMessage to a girl, sending a Slack message to my boss or posting to a group in Discord are nearly identical but the people and the intricacies of the software differ. This is one of the reasons I’ve never been a fan of the “Facebook is a social media monopoly” line of thinking, at least in America. Just doesn’t work if you sit down and think about it, it’s just another website that does a few things better than some others and they are massively successful because of what they’ve chosen to be good at. HN is a lot like /., Digg or very early Reddit to me, and it makes sense because it was started with a lot of the same ideas towards the end of that era, but with a purpose to serve Y Combinator’s needs.

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giancarlostoro 5y ago

HN is a social network as much as LinkedIn. They might not look the same and have the same features, but people connect with each other in varying ways on here. Discord it depends, but if you join the right communities, it's like joining the perfect Facebook Groups.