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Personally, despite its reputation I've gravitated more and more towards Twitter, because at HN I can't really trust what people are saying. People may sound sm
by martindbp 4y ago
Personally, despite its reputation I've gravitated more and more towards Twitter, because at HN I can't really trust what people are saying. People may sound smart and like they know their stuff, but you can come up with great sounding arguments for and against anything. It takes a lot of time and energy to figure out if someone is worth listening to, so to me it makes more sense to seek out the known experts and follow them on Twitter instead. HN has also become more and more anti-hacker, anti-technology and negative in general. Life's too short to be immersed in negativity, even if it's right, which it rarely is.
How would the ideal social network look like? A mix of HN and Twitter perhaps. There are rarely any discussions on Twitter with deep comment trees.
- danielovichdk 4y agoInteresting. I find the discussions here on HN much more useful than pretty much any other so-called social media. There is nothing social about them. They act as echo chambers imo and very easily become cargo cults surrounded by the usual suspects.
- martindbp 4y agoIt depends on who you follow. I try to follow mostly technical people who post about technical things, or other musings. If they tweet too much about politics I unfollow them, no matter how important they are otherwise. If you do this, you get a high signal to noise ratio, but Twitter unfortunately lacks in the depth of discussion. And also it's not very social as you say, it's mainly a way for me to listen in on conversations between experts rather than as a way for me to chime in personally.
- motoxpro 4y agoI have the opposite reaction. I like how all context of a persons argument is in one post. You could be The President or a homeless person and I will give your reply the same thought here, seems meritocratic to me.