I Quit Social Media for a Year

Re:I Quit Social Media for a Year by hnzix on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @09:11PM (#20935631)

In between the SV hivemind posts is distributed just enough nuggets of mindblowing technical, business and even medical wisdom (from insanely switched-on people) that it keeps me checking. It's the ultimate infovore loot box.

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Re:I Quit Social Media for a Year by someguy101010 on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @09:14PM (#20935647)

Well said, finding compelling info on here is such a dopamine rush. Receiving a dopamine rush from learning something interesting is probably a good thing though.

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Re:I Quit Social Media for a Year by Spectral on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @08:54PM (#20946467)

Here's something interesting I'd like to share (if you don't already know of it): https://news.ycombinator.com/over?points=70

For the past ~2 years I've only been looking at HN through this link. This limits the amount of listings I can see, while at the same time ensuring "higher quality" dopamine rushes. It's worked out for me quite well with giving me what I want to see, while wasting less time sifting through uninteresting stuff. Pretty much like reddit's top vs. hot functionality, just changing my defaults.

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Re:I Quit Social Media for a Year by lnl on Thursday September 12, 2019 @12:01PM (#20953024)

There's also https://news.ycombinator.com/best as an alternative for a similar purpose. I learned about those two and other undocumented features from https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented

You could also subscribe to HN on feed reader with such limitations, https://edavis.github.io/hnrss/ and http://hnapp.com/ are two that I have used in the past. e.g. https://hnrss.org/newest?comments=100 and http://hnapp.com/rss?q=comments%3E100 creates a feed limited by number of comments.

In the end I decided RSS wasn't ideal way to follow HN though, and for quite some time I have been using https://hckrnews.com/ almost exclusively to skim through top 10 posts for each day. Or top 20 or top 50%, if you have more free time. Plus I like the table layout, with comments/points in their respective columns.

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Re:I Quit Social Media for a Year by jmenter on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @10:58PM (#20936181)

I got a dopamine rush reading this!

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Re:I Quit Social Media for a Year by Paul-ish on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @11:20PM (#20936297)

You are all a bunch of junkies... scoot over.

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Re:I Quit Social Media for a Year by PeterisP on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @05:40AM (#20938084)

What has helped me a bit is the https://hackernewsletter.com/ - I can be sure to get the good nuggets, just a couple days later.

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Re:I Quit Social Media for a Year by b3b0p on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @09:14AM (#20939758)

Haha, you mention this, but I found it helps me find posts that slipped by my addiction. A blessing in disguise.

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Re:I Quit Social Media for a Year by klausjensen on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @07:01AM (#20938641)

I would like to try that - but it looks like the last issue was in January?

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