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Why are you contributing content to what you consider a disgusting business model? (You do understand that Hacker News is many thousands of times more potent an
by closeparen 4y ago
Why are you contributing content to what you consider a disgusting business model? (You do understand that Hacker News is many thousands of times more potent an attention predator than any of the Big Tech ad platforms, right?)
- Nextgrid 4y agoHN does not derive its profits from "growth and engagement". Unlike most social media, HN actually discourages spam and prioritizes fewer but more thoughtful posts/replies.
- chillacy 4y agoTo be very cynical, HN isn’t a nonprofit we all donate to either: it’s the wholly funded pet project of an organization who teaches growth and engagement (and in fact from what I hear is quite strict with its companies on expected monthly growth rate) That HN is a thoughtful garden unconcerned with the ugliness of ads and growth targets is also unsurprising to me, in the same way that a lot of open source and other charitable giving comes from companies who are already comfortably profitable.
- DiggyJohnson 4y agoI don’t see how this comment could add value to the discussion. Are you suggesting that we cannot discuss social media and technology addiction on those platforms?
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- closeparen 4y agoEnthusiasm for HN while bemoaning other less addictive social platforms suggests the complaint is more about content or business model or something like that, than attention / engagement / addiction per se.