We should do this with all social media. Facebook too.

empath75 · on July 1, 2020

The problem isn’t social media, the problem is unmoderated social media that uses engagement metrics to drive their algorithms. They’re selecting for the most hateful, divisive content.

It’s YouTube, it’s Facebook, it’s twitter.

Those three sites are the problem. Reddit has a lot of hateful bullshit but you need to go out of your way to find it. YouTube and Facebook feed you a heroin drip of it all day long.

whymauri · on July 1, 2020

Is this website not a form of social media..?

busterarm · on July 1, 2020

As much as I've had my disagreements with dang and the team, they're doing a great job keeping this community together.

If you steer clear of certain topics[1], this place is absolutely civil.

[1]: Not the usual suspects and not what divides the rest of the world...

realusername · on July 1, 2020

HN is just a forum really, there's not enough features to go beyond that.

whymauri · on July 1, 2020

Interesting. I guess I take the term "social media" a little too literally. This is not a hill I'm willing to die on, though. You're most likely correct.

realusername · on July 1, 2020

It always depends on how you stretch the term indeed, HN has less features than most old-style phpbb forums so that sounds strange to count it as social media.