Re:Facebook is obstructing our work on disinformation
by inglor_cz on Saturday August 14, 2021 @03:30PM
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"You pick your Facebook friends"
True, but this picking is not completely voluntary. If you are on Facebook and your relatives/coworkers/colleagues are, too, they will feel offended if you reject their friend request and you will have some personal hassle in your meatspace. Happened more than once to me and I reacted by cowardly accepting everyone and then filtering out most of them. Was not proud.
In that sense, being in a community of complete strangers here in HN is actually refreshing.
What I really value on HN is the fact that a lot of comments contain valuable info or at least interesting thoughts. I often changed my perspective on something I previously considered obvious after reading a HN discussion.
This is rare on Facebook, most of the user-produced content is low-effort, shallow, information-poor and/or fishing for likes.
True, but this picking is not completely voluntary. If you are on Facebook and your relatives/coworkers/colleagues are, too, they will feel offended if you reject their friend request and you will have some personal hassle in your meatspace. Happened more than once to me and I reacted by cowardly accepting everyone and then filtering out most of them. Was not proud.
In that sense, being in a community of complete strangers here in HN is actually refreshing.
What I really value on HN is the fact that a lot of comments contain valuable info or at least interesting thoughts. I often changed my perspective on something I previously considered obvious after reading a HN discussion.
This is rare on Facebook, most of the user-produced content is low-effort, shallow, information-poor and/or fishing for likes.