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Re:Amazon Echo Buds by simondw on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @08:25PM (#21077004)
What does an IPO have to do with whether a platform is social?

From your analysis, it almost sounds like HN is more social than the behavior-hacking money machines. The big companies might own the most commonly used social media, but that hardly means their model is the only one.

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Re:Amazon Echo Buds by rubbingalcohol on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @08:50PM (#21077114)
This is absurd. You and others nitpicking this person to death and creating false equivalencies while ignoring the content of their argument.

I too will not welcome our amoral surveillance overlords onto or into my body. I hope that is a clear enough statement for people to understand.

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Re:Amazon Echo Buds by dawg- on Friday September 27, 2019 @09:32AM (#21091742)
>it almost sounds like HN is more social than the behavior-hacking money machines

Excellent point! You have gotten to the core of the issue. Mediated social interaction is not more social. It's just a way to harvest data. Mere "connection", in the language of FB who aims to "connect the world", doesn't equal better and more fulfilling communication.

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