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HN and Facebook are entirely different beasts. I have no idea who you are, stickfigure. I can't remember usernames from HN, I can't follow people, I can't curat

HN and Facebook are entirely different beasts. I have no idea who you are, stickfigure. I can't remember usernames from HN, I can't follow people, I can't curate my feed not every user submitted feed with upvotes is the same

stickfigure 5mo ago
You can always find some slight difference. HN is orange, FB is blue! You absolutely can follow people here. Accounts have profiles and you can look at all their comments and submissions. If you want to make it convenient, there are browser extensions. But I don't see why that matters. You stick around here long enough you tend to recognize the frequent commenters. And what do you mean you have no idea who I am? That's a choice. Like you, I have plenty of identifying information in my profile. People who want anonymity create throwaway accounts, just like reddit et al.
- airstrike 5mo ago
  Yeah, none of that makes the two comparable. Both a wheelbarrow and a Ferrari have wheels.
  - pessimizer 5mo ago
    > Both a wheelbarrow and a Ferrari have wheels. What is this supposed to mean? They're also two rolling carts steered by a human, and I'm going to make similar decisions for both when I'm e.g. designing a path that they have to move on, or trying to figure out traffic patterns around a construction site. The people who know it when they see it are exactly the people I don't want making any important decisions. Just be specific and don't use rhetorical appeals to ignorance.
Capricorn2481 5mo ago
You can literally go to a users profile and bookmark it. You are following them. You cannot curate your feed on Facebook. You used to, sure. Now it's just whatever they give you.
- airstrike 5mo ago
  I am not following them in the social media sense if I don't get a feed of their activities. I can also bookmark people on X, and yet, there's a different "Follow" functionality. They are not the same thing.

stickfigure 5mo ago

You can always find some slight difference. HN is orange, FB is blue! You absolutely can follow people here. Accounts have profiles and you can look at all their comments and submissions. If you want to make it convenient, there are browser extensions. But I don't see why that matters. You stick around here long enough you tend to recognize the frequent commenters. And what do you mean you have no idea who I am? That's a choice. Like you, I have plenty of identifying information in my profile. People who want anonymity create throwaway accounts, just like reddit et al.

airstrike 5mo ago
Yeah, none of that makes the two comparable. Both a wheelbarrow and a Ferrari have wheels.
- pessimizer 5mo ago
  > Both a wheelbarrow and a Ferrari have wheels. What is this supposed to mean? They're also two rolling carts steered by a human, and I'm going to make similar decisions for both when I'm e.g. designing a path that they have to move on, or trying to figure out traffic patterns around a construction site. The people who know it when they see it are exactly the people I don't want making any important decisions. Just be specific and don't use rhetorical appeals to ignorance.

Capricorn2481 5mo ago

You can literally go to a users profile and bookmark it. You are following them. You cannot curate your feed on Facebook. You used to, sure. Now it's just whatever they give you.

airstrike 5mo ago
I am not following them in the social media sense if I don't get a feed of their activities. I can also bookmark people on X, and yet, there's a different "Follow" functionality. They are not the same thing.