any definition of "social media" which excludes HN and channels where you can interact with respondants, I feel is incomplete. Leaving twitter is the easy bit, the hard bit is moving from call-and-answer to a sense what you want is to say your piece, and what people say back doesn't have to be replied to, any more than every HN comment which catches my eye does.
It's hard to stop interacting. The social bit, I can stop any time.
bdangubic•3mo ago
100% you are an outlier. I doubt there are many people than are “HN addicted” whereas X/Insta/TT/Snap… addictions are very, very real…
I quit all social media years ago and it took a long time to fully rid myself of it, I kept re-installing apps etc. HN I load few days per week but mostly to read stories and from time to time comments. Never found HN to be in any way a “social” place that made me want to go back to read people’s comments
ggm•3mo ago
I suspect this is a "what you bring to it" situation. X/Twitter is designed to hook you into repetitive patterns. This place, thats almost an anti pattern.
A decade or so back in the context of "too much email" some friends and I discussed if we were all rationed to one email a day, what we'd do, and if it was one a week (this is to lists) what we'd do..
ggm•3mo ago
It's hard to stop interacting. The social bit, I can stop any time.
bdangubic•3mo ago
I quit all social media years ago and it took a long time to fully rid myself of it, I kept re-installing apps etc. HN I load few days per week but mostly to read stories and from time to time comments. Never found HN to be in any way a “social” place that made me want to go back to read people’s comments
ggm•3mo ago
A decade or so back in the context of "too much email" some friends and I discussed if we were all rationed to one email a day, what we'd do, and if it was one a week (this is to lists) what we'd do..