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This is a great blog post -- I can't help but feel like its an argument less against social media and more about how we use social media. I think it's particul
by jmduke 14y ago
This is a great blog post -- I can't help but feel like its an argument less against social media and more about how we use social media.
I think it's particularly ironic that he singled out Reddit for providing "absolutely 0 value to me", since Reddit's original use was a news aggregator devoted to separating signal from noise. Nowadays, its a place for people to spout memes.
- bostonpete 14y agoI dunno -- I haven't actively used reddit in a couple of years but I remember it always being pretty meme-heavy... (that and an unhealthy obsession with comparing reddit to digg, though I'm guessing that theme has fallen by the wayside)
- dwc 14y agoI use reddit, but I had to unsubscribe from most of the default subreddits, and also from a few subreddits that I'd hand picked. It's a shame, but it's difficult to get programming news from reddit these days. Apart from silly memes, it's sipping from a firehose. So these days I largely stick to the backwaters where there's a much smaller amount of total content and good signal:noise.
- graue 14y agoI'd argue though that a news aggregator can separate signal from noise and still provide no value. On HN I catch myself reading very well-written, thoroughly researched and fascinating articles... that have nothing to do with my life. That takes time away from _doing_ things, like the writing and painting OP accomplished on his info diet.
- jtrdk 14y ago> Nowadays, its a place for people to spout memes. You have to groom your subreddit subscriptions. My picks: askscience, 1000words, linguistics, science, somethingimade, DepthHub, books. All these largely contain interesting and productive discussions.