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> Hard to follow someone, hard to chat Maybe that's one reason why you have such great quality time here. I think the problem about social medias is that peop
by nirui 2y ago
> Hard to follow someone, hard to chat
Maybe that's one reason why you have such great quality time here.
I think the problem about social medias is that people have flaws, and social medias puts a great focus on individual people, exposing their good side as well as flawed side. But, most people are not well-trained to handle such level of influence (including being influenced as well as to influence the others), and don't clearly know the power/stress such influence might hold (one misstep, the whole thing can crash to hell).
Also, people change. One day you believe one thing, then the next day you believe something completely different. But if your follower follows you exactly because you are advocating one belief, wouldn't that in turn encourages you to lock yourself out from all other beliefs (and risk become more extreme in the process)?
Hacker News puts the material itself in the focus of discussion, rather than who posted it. Which in my opinion, is better, at least most the time.
- DenisM 2y agoYes, but… there were a half-dozen people here whose comments I alway enjoyed for the deep and nuanced perspective. I haven’t seen them in a few years now, sadly. Maybe some light-touch people focus would be a nice compromise. Like, highlight the discussion where my favorite people participate? That could avoid the bandwagon effect. I dunno, maybe not.
- supriyo-biswas 2y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17717598 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17717598
- kjkjadksj 2y agoHn is powerful you can follow an individual users replies across the site via an rss feed. Get literally pinged when accountyoulike comments.
- BiteCode_dev 2y agoIndeed, having focus on content instead of people make things much more civil organically.
- washadjeffmad 2y agoIn truth, I've noticed Reddit refugees here who think they're community cops, and it's distracting enough that it's decreased my enjoyment of discussion. Because they don't discuss. They downvote to disagree, they don't reply, and they karma farm like that gives them street cred to be miserable. It's like they're not even people outside of their accounts.