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Funny you ask, I just deactivated my Facebook account this morning for an unrelated reason (too much junk and drama, too little utility). I don't have much need
by chime 17y ago
Funny you ask, I just deactivated my Facebook account this morning for an unrelated reason (too much junk and drama, too little utility). I don't have much need for Twitter/Digg/Flickr/TechCrunch either. But I log into HN and reddit every single day. Five years ago I commented on Fark/Mefi forums diligently and ten years ago it was IRC and Yahoo chat. I think what it really boils down to is a good, intelligent crowd with decent moderation system. Social sites end up having little of that and a lot of useless banter.
- anatoly 17y agoWhat made you abandon mefi for reddit? I've never had time for mefi, but from casual browsing had the impression that its quality was higher than what I'm seeing at reddit.
- chime 17y agoI love Mefi and the crowd is extremely intelligent but the threaded commenting system on reddit is way better for following topics. I still visit Mefi few times a week and go to Mefi meetups in St. Pete/Tampa. If HN didn't have this kind of threaded commenting system, I wouldn't be on it either because I don't have time to go back to all the various comments I've posted to manually check if someone replied to my post 30 comments below.