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This is why I quit social media years ago. There is no difference between a stream of posts from strangers and a stream of posts from bots. What I care is inter
by pmontra 4y ago
This is why I quit social media years ago. There is no difference between a stream of posts from strangers and a stream of posts from bots. What I care is interaction with friends and FB wouldn't give it to me or not as effectively as WhatsApp and Telegram. So I ended up with WhatsApp groups and Telegram channels where I know first hand most of the people or more rarely I'm at one hop from them. The only place where I regularly interact with strangers is HN.
- baxtr 4y agoSo does this mean you wouldn’t qualify HN as social media?
- moffkalast 4y agoReddit and HN are more in the subgroup of what you could call antisocial media.
- pmontra 4y agoNot in the way Facebook or TikTok are social media. HN's dynamics make it closer to forums from last century or Usenet IMHO. Strictly speaking almost everything is a social media, even WhatsApp and Telegram which I use daily.