I Miss the Old Internet

Re:I Miss the Old Internet by adg29 on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @10:56PM (#21405321)

Curious but why do you qualify HN as semi social?

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Re:I Miss the Old Internet by mikekchar on Thursday October 31, 2019 @02:41AM (#21406239)

Not OP, but personally I definitely view HN as a comment board that points to links as a way to drive discussion as opposed to a news site that allows comments. Probably not how it is normally described, but it's definitely how I use it.

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Re:I Miss the Old Internet by TeMPOraL on Thursday October 31, 2019 @06:47AM (#21407379)

Agreed. That's how I use it too.

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Re:I Miss the Old Internet by mjlee on Thursday October 31, 2019 @06:40AM (#21407336)

There's no real culture here of meta discussion or throwaway comments/in jokes like there is on more socially engaged platforms.

The majority of discussion here is "on topic" - which is good but very different to Reddit or Slack communities which tend to revolve more around personalities.

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Re:I Miss the Old Internet by myrandomcomment on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @11:03PM (#21405358)

Ah, well I guess semi is the wrong word here? I guess I mean HN has a group of people in general that have a shared background. I would guess that a large % of people on HN have some sort of STEM background, which doesn’t match to the reddit community. I do not see many people on /r/the_donald with a STEM background arguing against climate change.

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