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Hopefully this all comes full circle and we just quit social sites en masse.

crote 2y ago
Or return to the webring era, where you vouch that the people you recommend are made of flesh and blood and create quality content.
perching_aix 2y ago
This is a social site too, and not much better than Reddit if at all - at least when I only consider the communities I "participated in" there. That said, I have been thinking about quitting HN too several times, and I find it disappointing that there's no (easy) way to export my data from here. Pretty unhappy about it as well. I have no real interest in physical socializing, but virtual socializing is slowly becoming untenable. Small communities (can) work OK, but anything at-scale is various degrees of rough. I just don't think natural language and the human experience can properly scale this large, and it shows.
- luckylion 2y ago
  https://github.com/HackerNews/API https://github.com/HackerNews/API https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/user/perching_aix.json?print=pretty https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/user/perching_aix.json... it's fairly easy to export your data. I find the quality level comes and goes on HN, but overall it's still much higher than anywhere else I've seen.
  - perching_aix 2y ago
    My expectation of easy is driven by what other social sites are required to provide by law: a button. I think we can agree that being able to consume an API is reasonably far from that, even if that API is straightforward. Good to know it's that straightforward though, I knew of the repo but was like eh, maybe next time, always the next time.
bongodongobob 2y ago
Hackernews isn't much better than Reddit once the topic veers away from dev tech. Any post about Microsoft or art/music/philosophy is absolute trash, I hide every one.
- firesteelrain 2y ago
  How do you hide and does it stick? The political posts are toxic AF
  - bongodongobob 2y ago
    I just click the hide button. The political posts are exactly what HN needs because these rich fucks aren't hackers and need to know what people think about them.
rr808 2y ago
To me its all turning to s**. I loved newsgroups and have been addicted to forums since but I really spend little time now. Even HN is getting pretty boring.

Or return to the webring era, where you vouch that the people you recommend are made of flesh and blood and create quality content.

perching_aix 2y ago

This is a social site too, and not much better than Reddit if at all - at least when I only consider the communities I "participated in" there. That said, I have been thinking about quitting HN too several times, and I find it disappointing that there's no (easy) way to export my data from here. Pretty unhappy about it as well. I have no real interest in physical socializing, but virtual socializing is slowly becoming untenable. Small communities (can) work OK, but anything at-scale is various degrees of rough. I just don't think natural language and the human experience can properly scale this large, and it shows.

luckylion 2y ago
https://github.com/HackerNews/API https://github.com/HackerNews/API https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/user/perching_aix.json?print=pretty https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/user/perching_aix.json... it's fairly easy to export your data. I find the quality level comes and goes on HN, but overall it's still much higher than anywhere else I've seen.
- perching_aix 2y ago
  My expectation of easy is driven by what other social sites are required to provide by law: a button. I think we can agree that being able to consume an API is reasonably far from that, even if that API is straightforward. Good to know it's that straightforward though, I knew of the repo but was like eh, maybe next time, always the next time.

bongodongobob 2y ago

Hackernews isn't much better than Reddit once the topic veers away from dev tech. Any post about Microsoft or art/music/philosophy is absolute trash, I hide every one.

firesteelrain 2y ago
How do you hide and does it stick? The political posts are toxic AF
- bongodongobob 2y ago
  I just click the hide button. The political posts are exactly what HN needs because these rich fucks aren't hackers and need to know what people think about them.

rr808 2y ago

To me its all turning to s**. I loved newsgroups and have been addicted to forums since but I really spend little time now. Even HN is getting pretty boring.