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by spokaneplumb 511 days ago
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.
1 comments
bdangubic 511 days ago
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

- …

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