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It's an infinite feed of content with comments and ranking based on upvotes (aka likes)

• causal 2y ago
  It is social media, but I'd argue that it lacks the worst incentives of social media: monetization and ads, which lead to attention-hacking algorithms and regression to lowest common denominator content.
  • lesuorac 2y ago
    Eh, its monetized in a different way. YC has a vested interest in programmers being exposed to YC companies such that they might go work/start one of them. Sure the occasional "Promoted post" is way less than say Reddit or mid-roll ads.
  • fny 2y ago
    It still leverages social and internet points which for some is attention-hijacking enough.
    • randmeerkat 2y ago
      > It still leverages social and internet points which for some is attention-hijacking enough. The difference is it’s not deliberate, it’s just how they get us to rank training data for ChatGPT 5.
• croes 2y ago
  The ranking doesn’t seem to be based on likes alone. For a real social media the content should be ranked by the likes of my peers, a feature non existent on HN