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Im 36, I guess so? I don’t use “social media” at all anymore, but I use Discord a lot. It reminds me of the good ol’ days of AOL and IRC, and I prefer chat room
by pram 4y ago
Im 36, I guess so? I don’t use “social media” at all anymore, but I use Discord a lot. It reminds me of the good ol’ days of AOL and IRC, and I prefer chat rooms over posting into the void.
I find Twitter and such intolerable because it mostly started to feel like I was just a mark for random grifts. At some point around ~2016 everything seemed to turn into a link for Patreon or a podcast or blah blah
- Someone1234 4y ago> I don’t use “social media” at all anymore Posted on HN, QED.
- feet 4y agoI've also quit all social media besides HN. At least I can try and tell myself that HN is more stimulating intellectually, it's my one dirty little digital habit I have left
- autotune 4y agoHN is just a last crutch for me after leaving reddit at this point. I prefer it because upvotes and downvotes are anonymous except for your own when it comes to comments, so there isn’t as much of a dopamine hit after posting when you really think about it.
- pram 4y agoThis kind of pedantry is exactly what keeps me coming back for more!
- ngoilapites 4y agoYou better write longer, more informative paragraphs LOL
- bavell 4y agoDo you consider forums "social media"?
- deafpolygon 4y agoI don't consider forums social media. To me, HN is more of a forum. A social media's primary goal is engagement - to keep you coming back for more, to keep you scrolling. And the content reflects that. A forum's primary goal is discourse. Reddit straddles that weird space in between.
- atomashevic 4y agoDiscord sounds like something I would enjoy, I was heavy IRC user back in the day. But I never found an interesting server. Any recommendations for servers focusing on topics like AI-ML/Python/Math,probability, statistics?
- turrican 4y agoWhile I don’t personally know any good servers for those topics, https://disboard.org https://disboard.org is a good resource for finding new servers that match your interests. Good luck!
- hexatin 4y agoAny advice for finding quality Discord servers (things like ideal member count / “red flags” etc)? I feel like I have a lot of trouble finding servers that strike a good balance of being active but not impenetrable.
- turrican 4y agoI don’t have any, other than maybe look in general chat to make sure it’s active. I’ve also struggled with this, often a promising new server is disappointing after I get to know it over a couple days.
- DoItToMe81 4y agoIt's a mess of malignant attention whores and child predators. The servers that are good inevitably attract the bad types who, when removed, go out of their on way to take the server down. Don't waste your time.
- atomashevic 4y agoThanks, I quickly found what I was looking for!