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This forum is social media.

• happytoexplain 10mo ago
  Not by colloquial usage of the term, which is often (and in this case) limited to the subset of larger global human-content firehoses where the problems inherent to that dynamic become more dramatic, e.g. Twitter, Facebook, shorts feeds, things like Instagram and Reddit maybe, etc.
  • beAbU 10mo ago
    HN is just as much an echo chamber as any facebook group or subreddit. You are making a mistake if you think you are immune from groupthink and herd mentality by limiting your online discourse to this platform only.
  • LexiMax 10mo ago
    Hacker News is Reddit with tone policing and a nuclear downvote button. The only difference is scale, and with the increasing flood of bot users and throwaway alt accounts, that's starting to matter less and less.
• GJim 10mo ago
  Social media is where one shares ones social live; its in the name! Whist there is often plenty of crossover (think car enthusiast forums), I'd hardly call a technical discussion site 'social media'.