I expected something more creative, replacing posts with my friends, like my grandmother sharing why React is awesome and my primary school friends discussing how did they go microservices.
it's funny how staring at your phone at a party is not only socially acceptable, but also almost necessary to communicate that you have friends. This browser plugins helps us less popular people appear important.
I think the point of this extension is for people who need to access facebook features like groups and events, but don't want to get distracted by the dopamine-inducing newsfeed on the way
Yep. I'm off facebook but I've been thinking about blocking hackernews and fark at the router level if I could. At some point you have to start doing things instead of reading about the people who are.
I've unfollowed all my friends who discuss politics in an alarmist and sensationalist way (keeping the small number who take a tempered and balanced perspective), and it honestly _is_ saving me from cancer since my stress levels (which causes all sorts of ailments) are much lower now.
Other than it being almost a complete waste of time with all the nonsense spam clickbait articles there nowadays, I don't see what other benefits there are from avoiding it really. Jealousy at people's fake lives perhaps?
There are plents. This page (while obviously written to someone else) is good. Specifically for the number of links at the bottom with much more in depth information: www.matthewbrecher.com/socialmedia.html
Facebook events are invaluable to my life these days, but the news feed is an addiction that I've been fighting since university. If only I could be %100 dedicated to all resolutions without any effort then I wouldn't need any tricks like this.
Plus this is just meant to be silly. I should really just blank out the news feed like someone else suggested.
The difference is like coffee and heroin, also both HN and coffee are good for you.
Edit: doing the trick like this, injecting HN into FB feels like injecting coffee into your veins - I don't think it will give you the effect you're after.
Yeah this was my first thought too. I way prefer just coming here than trying to navigate the shared HN stories on my Facebook timeline. There is something unsettling to me about seeing HN stories shared on Facebook anyway but maybe I'm weird.
http://www.messenger.com is the web version of their mobile messenger clients. I often spend extended periods without seeing my newsfeed/notifications but still use the messenger everyday.
I've always used an extension to completely block the news feed (like [0]) and I've found it to be an excellent deterrant to using facebook in general. Generally now I use messenger.com when I have to but otherwise completely avoid the site.
Although HN has now pretty much replaced facebook as my go-to site when I open a browser, so I'm not sure how useful it is after all. At least it's domain-specific and less psychologically manipulative.
I went cold turkey and closed my fb account. Feeling a little bit of abstinence, but I think I'm replacing it with more activity here and instead of opening fb on my phone, I open an ebook reader, so it's good so far.
I'd love to do that, but I'm sucked in by the social pull...too many of my friends use Groups and Messenger to organize, despite my pleas to the contrary.
In a perfect world, I'd have only the functionality that those two provide, perhaps with some sort of static profile.
Me too, but I still can't stop using WhatsApp, it's the most popular IM app in my country, and only a small percentage of my friends cares enough about their privacy and digital freedom to switch to an alternative.
Oh, I kept Whatsapp. It's not that I care about privacy or digital freedom, I assume those are lost by now.
I care about the amount of time I spend on those platforms and the amount of garbage I consume on them. Whatsapp is just a messaging platform, not one that provides an information feed to consume. I kept twitter because it's short and limits the text I could post to someone about something, which also limits the desire to do so because a tweet is ironic, informative or sarcastic, but cannot ensue a good and lenghty discussion (though some people try that, I cannot bear to imagine doing so)
I've been off facebook for a month now and I really really miss pages of some artists and groups for abstract art. I was seriously getting into asemic writing at the same time I was trying to kick the habit of typing out whatever bullshit ideas about politics were in my mind. Aaaand I chose the latter. :-(
If you really miss those, you can write a bot that logs in a dummy account and scraps the content and emails it to you. Makes for a cool weekend project.
I've always wanted to do something like this but haven't found the time to. I've written something to turn my Twitter consumption into RSS feeds, and I want the same thing for Facebook. Just turn whatever things I want to follow into RSS feeds and read it at my leisure.
It will also optionally replace Hacker News, Product Hunt, Reddit, Twitter, and Youtube homepages/feed with the same todo app. Basically all the sites that stop me from doing my work (HN is one of the worst for me)
I use a chrome extension go fucking do it, which disables facebook, twitter and reddit. The only thing that I can see is hackernews.
As a fall back, I have also installed facebook newsfeed eradicator (chrome extension), because I dont trust myself. It shows me motivational quotes instead of the newsfeed.
This extension just gave me the idea to replace the newsfeed with hackernews posts, and as someone mentioned, have the ability to comment on posts....(another side project enqueued)
What I have realized for myself tough is that being a developer, you need an avenue for mindless tasks. Unfortunately due to cultural programming and a good job on behalf of the creators, it is the social media sites, the productive yield of which is very low.
So, for myself atleast, I have realized that I cannot absolutely stop using these sites. The best thing to do then, is to replace it with another activity that is productive and similar. hackernews does a good job.
Some people mentioned reading an ebook that sounds better. Will try that as well.
I completely agree. Although it is not that mindless of a task, I personaly prefer playing a musical instrument without thinking too much of its theory. Playing music like a musician who codes really helps.
Immediately added to Chrome. Any plans on making it so that when I click 'more' I get more HackerNews rather than being redirected from Facebook to HackerNews?
The other dev of this project here - I think it's less of a challenge than presumed because, essentially, we're hijacking Facebook's markup structure anyway. All we have to do is inject stories one-by-one into existing elements rather than replacing the news feed entirely.
Ok, now i like the concept, and it helps controlling the addiction to facebook.
but doesn't this just get access to our facebook account ?
and a hell of a privacy concern it creates.
You don't actually need Greasemonkey. These scripts are browser-agnostic, so if you use Chrome, you can just install this as a Chrome extension. If you don't use Chrome, you can install this on Firefox using Greasemonkey.
Currently, the Grease/Tampermonkey userscript and the Chrome extension driver script are separate entities. We're working to either make them one and the same OR be exclusively driver scripts, and the real work is done somewhere else.
