Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation

Re:Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation by komali2 on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @01:12PM (#19087904)

>I am spending more time on HN though...

Same boat. Twitter as well.

Snipped reddit, went to twitter. Snipped twitter, came to here. Seems I just can't get enough of "talking with people on the internet."

GF says I should try to find a book club. She's probably right.

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Re:Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation by rconti on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @01:37PM (#19088262)

Twitter is the absolute worst of all of them, though. Of all of the platforms, it creates the greatest incentives for antisocial behavior, prioritizing shouting, content-less attention-whoring-for-clicks over everything else.

If you want to be an "influencer" on twitter (which most folks seem to want to be), you just shout the most outrageous things you can to try to cast a wider net.

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Re:Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation by mesaframe on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @02:16PM (#19088701)

You get what you look for.

In my experience twitter has been an educational journey.

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Re:Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation by md224 on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @02:03PM (#19088565)

> Seems I just can't get enough of "talking with people on the internet."

Are we sure this is a bad thing? Socializing with other people is a key component of well-being... could it be good for us even if it's online? What if it's even more fulfilling than IRL socialization? Why do we naturally recoil from the suggestion that conversing with people online could be a good way to spend a significant portion of our time?

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