[notnaut]

Is hacker news not social media? Or do you find that it works as a form of social media that is “good” whereas all these other forms you’ve abandoned are “bad?”

If it’s a simple matter like that, what ideas could other social media take from HN to improve?

[spokaneplumb]

No personalized feed driven by anything other than user selections. User identities downplayed. Profiles, but barely. Can’t “follow” people.

If HN is social media, the term’s being used so broadly we’ll need something other term to refer to the kind of thing that Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, et c, are.

[bdangubic]

to add

- no pictures

- no videos

- no adds

- no “for you” feeds

- not owned by US adversary (this is X, Facebook, TikTok (current and new one after the “sale”…) all are owned by people who do not care about Americans and work actively to destroy it)

- no personal shit like “look at my life, I won’t have money for milk but here is a picture from Hawaii

- insane shit gets easily flagged

- no influencers

- …