On: Why do you waste so much time on the internet?

[whomst]

To be fair almost all of Hacker News is a vapid waste of time too

[jhugo → whomst]

But the 10~20% that is very high quality is worth it. The link to something interesting that starts a meaningful, nuanced discussion that often includes people close to the topic at hand. I've never seen that kind of content on other social media.

[whomst → jhugo]

There are meaningful things on other social media that make them Pareto distributed too and I disagree that the SNR of HN is higher than elsewhere

[jhugo → whomst]

Well, that's the point of my comment - HN to me has much higher SNR. Would love to learn how to find the meaningful things on other social media without scrolling through the 99.9% of noise.