Despite what so many others are going to say, yes, it's social media. It aggregates great things that others are doing along with other posts designed to elici

Despite what so many others are going to say, yes, it's social media. It aggregates great things that others are doing along with other posts designed to elicit extreme emotions and feeds them to you with an algorithm designed to encourage engagement. (I had originally written "maximize", but HN's algorithm does at least try to prevent flamewars.)