[hamasho]

I grew up on a small village in a small island. The yogurt lady was an essential part of the community.

Many stay-at-home moms (including my mom) seemed to enjoy her visit. She and my mom talked a lot, sometimes for hours (I still can't figure out how she completed her job when she spent so much time with one person). They chatted about recent events, like the daughter of the fisherman gave birth, the great-grandpa of the liquor shop died of cancer, a newly opened restaurant in the nearest town sucked, and sometimes shared even personal struggles or family matters. It really helped a lot of people combat mental struggles caused by the isolation of being traditional stay-at-home wives in a super rural area. The only downside was anything you shared with her would be spread in the entire village before dawn.

[dang]

This is one for https://news.ycombinator.com/highlights

(I mention this so more people can know the list exists, and hopefully email us more nominations)

[mh-]

I love this! Thank you. I spent way too much time on HN this week, so I'd already enjoyed several of these, but this is a great showcase of the content that keeps me coming back here.

[baxtr]

@dang, how do you curate these? Manually?

Have you thought about sourcing these by looking at the most favorited comments per week?

[dang]

Manually, some by ourselves and some nominated by readers.

That's a good idea btw - here are some of the most-favorited comments from this past week:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47258500

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47238442

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47237467

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47232961

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47226535

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47214629

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47210627

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47206393

Only a couple of those were already in /highlights.

I'm not sure yet whether this is good enough to be an automatic feed into /highlights but I could imagine adding aggregated /favorites pages to https://news.ycombinator.com/lists.

[baxtr]

@dang: these are amazing! Real useful gems... I think they are different than the highlight ones, seems like people favorite them because of their utility mostly.

Would love to see it as /favorites in the lists page!

[baxtr]

Thanks! Didn’t know this existed.

[astrobe_]

> The only downside was anything you shared with her would be spread in the entire village before dawn

It's a better service than FB or Instagram that depress because people only show their good sides there... As you said, she was an essential part of the community ;-)

[rock_artist]

> It's a better service than FB or Instagram that depress because people only show their good sides there...

Sadly it's not only that. Social networks are "half-duplex" where you most likely to broadcast or consume at a time. it's not a true dialog. it made FOMO a thing. and worse, it's not only used for showing good, But it's being used to make complicated world events into bite-size good/bad dividing humanity instead of embracing and considering the complexity.

[MinimalAction]

This is pretty typical of life in small villages across southeast Asia, especially towns along the coast have fish/cashew nuts lady as opposed to the yogurt lady. She was the local news representative and also the beacon of acceptable levels of capitalism -- would price her products with just enough margin for her to enjoy her simple life.