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When I read stuff like this I feel a huge disconnect from the modern world. I have never enjoyed social media other than HN. It all seems like a vapid waste of
by jhugo 4y ago
When I read stuff like this I feel a huge disconnect from the modern world. I have never enjoyed social media other than HN. It all seems like a vapid waste of time. Sometimes I start to scroll Instagram to see what I'm missing out on, and by the second interspersed ad I'm bored and mildly disgusted, so I close the app. Maybe it's just that the algorithm isn't giving me the content I really want/need, so I'm stuck in some kind of social media purgatory, but I really don't understand how people get addicted to it.
- codetrotter 4y ago> Maybe it's just that the algorithm isn't giving me the content I really want/need (Don’t) try TikTok.
- whomst 4y agoTo be fair almost all of Hacker News is a vapid waste of time too
- jhugo 4y agoBut the 10~20% that is very high quality is worth it. The link to something interesting that starts a meaningful, nuanced discussion that often includes people close to the topic at hand. I've never seen that kind of content on other social media.
- whomst 4y agoThere are meaningful things on other social media that make them Pareto distributed too and I disagree that the SNR of HN is higher than elsewhere
- jhugo 4y agoWell, that's the point of my comment - HN to me has much higher SNR. Would love to learn how to find the meaningful things on other social media without scrolling through the 99.9% of noise.