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Hacker News is social media. It just lacks a pretty UI and is overall less vapid.

• dingnuts 1y ago
  oh no it's just as vapid lol, basically equivalent to LinkedIn and if you think otherwise you're deluding yourself
  • sokoloff 1y ago
    If I’m deluded, so be it, but I see a massive gulf between the content on LinkedIn and HN.
• elzbardico 1y ago
  It is, but it is way harder to self-promote yourself and derive other than intellectual satisfaction. It was not purposely built as a platform for advertising and branding like social networks. You don't even have the dopamine hit of counting your content upvotes.
  • thegrim33 1y ago
    What do you mean? Every post and comment can receive upvotes, your account has total upvotes, the dopamine hit is there when you can simply look at the top of the screen next to your username and see the number go up after posting. There's even rewards if you make the number go high enough, such as being able to downvote and flag stuff once you reach a certain level.
  • anthony_d 1y ago
    I was under the impression that HN is at least as centered on self-promotion as any other social media site. > You don't even have the dopamine hit of counting your content upvotes. There’s a score displayed at the top right; I’m 100% that some percentage of visitors get a dopamine hit off that.
• GJim 1y ago
  Not this again. Social media is where one shares one's social life (it's in the name!). Granted there is often crossover between technical discussion forums and social media (I'm thinking of a motorbike forum I frequent), but to suggest the likes of HN is social media is rather silly. Isn't it.
  • Karrot_Kream 1y ago
    > Social media is where one shares one's social life (it's in the name!). So TikTok isn't social media because most people don't lost content and those that do rarely post about their social life? Twitter isn't social media because most people don't post about their social life?
    • GJim 1y ago
      > So TikTok Is a video sharing platform. > rarely post about their social life Note your correct use of the word rarely and consider my comment about crossover. > Twitter Xitter is a 'micro' blogging site. > most people don't post about their social life Again, note your observation of the most common uses of that platform and consider my comment about crossover.
      • Karrot_Kream 1y ago
        Based on my understanding of your comment, the crossover exceptions dominate the discriminative power of the categories, so the taxonomy feels useless.
  • sokoloff 1y ago
    I've always thought of it (and seen it defined) as media where the content is generated, liked, and commented upon by users (i.e. socially) rather than the media being controlled by a small group serving in an editorial role (traditional media). Usenet is (IMO) the original social media. Very few usenet groups had anything to do with sharing one's social life.