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I've never used Mastodon of Bluesky and I hate Twitter. I do feel pretty engaged with HN, and it is text-only. I'm not sure what makes "social media" differen
by throwaway81523 1y ago
I've never used Mastodon of Bluesky and I hate Twitter. I do feel pretty engaged with HN, and it is text-only. I'm not sure what makes "social media" different from a discussion board though, so I don't know whether HN counts. I do remember that github used to call itself social coding, which was one factor making me want to stay away from it.
- latexr 1y agoHN has (or is missing, depending on your point of view) a number of features integral to (other?) social networks. Being text-only is one, but not having notifications for replies is a big one. Also no “boosts”, “reshares”, “follows”, “blocks”, …
- throwaway81523 1y agoYeah for Usenet I use gnus, which keeps track of which posts I have already seen. It doesn't have notifications and I don't miss them, as long as I can see right away where the new posts are. I don't know what reshares are. Gnus does have a way to ignore specific posters or topics and I do use that. Every time I mull the idea of writing another forum poster, I come back to the realization that Usenet already does everything needed (at least on the backend), and has done so since the 1980s. A better NNTP to web gateway is all it could really use, for those who want to read with browsers.
- aspenmayer 1y agoFor reply notifications, I use HN user ‘dangrossman’s HN Replies: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dangrossman https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dangrossman Show HN: HN Replies – Get notified of replies to your comments - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11080539 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11080539 - February 11 2016 (124 comments) https://www.hnreplies.com/ https://www.hnreplies.com/