> I've already eliminated all the other socials and that has been very good for me

You do understand that you are posting this to hacker news right?

Hacker News is a news aggregator.

Yet here we are in the comments.

Hacker News is a Reddit clone that PG wrote because subreddits didn’t exist yet and he wanted to write an application in Arc.

Hacker News is what I refer to as The last bastion of the "Old Internet".

Like back when the internet was a thing that people actually had to put effort into participating in so the average quality of content and engagement was consistently high more often than it was low.

Back when you actually had forums dedicated to single areas of interest, run by people who were interested in that thing "just coz".

I feel like Hacker News is literally the last little glint of light in a sea of seething darkness... it makes me nostalgic for the internet we had and lost.

Almost all that is good on the internet these days are holdovers from the Web 1.0 era. Everything else seems to crumble under commercial interests and withers in sea of ads and IPOs.

Ironic that it’s funded and maintained by one of the main organisations responsible for what you’re talking about.

It makes me wonder how Neopets is doing these days.

I spend most of my time on historicbridges.org it's very old internet!

Projectilepoints.net too!

Reddit is better than other social media because it doesnt ask for phone number, and HN is better yet because it doesnt even ask for email.

Reddit asks for email but it's not required. They use dark patterns to make it seem like it's required though.

good to know)

HN isn't in the business of collecting my data, distracting me as much as possible and showing me ads.

My HN usage is quite low and acceptable as I often find work-related content.

Same here. Time to go back to reading books and talking to people.

>Time to go back to reading books and talking to people.

Bold strategy. How is it going so far?

Yeah, this seems like a good thing really, to break the addiction. It's easy to get caught up in doom-scrolling.