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Re: Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival by hellofunk on Friday November 15, 2019 @01:21PM (#21547288)
And how is HN not social?
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Re: Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival by charlesism on Friday November 15, 2019 @01:36PM (#21547418)
HN is “social”. It’s just not so “social” that I want to throw my router off the balcony upon reading it.
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Re: Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival by Finnucane on Friday November 15, 2019 @01:29PM (#21547365)
The main difference between a 'social media' forum and a topical forum is that in a topical forum there's some expectation of staying more or less, you know, on topic. There is some functional overlap, but more limited domain.
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