Ask HN: What Social Media are you using outside HN?
Looking to hear where else you are visiting.
I flip between Reddit, HN, and instagram. Currently losing interest in IG since I feel like I see lots of repeated content.
Where else are you visiting?
I flip between Reddit, HN, and instagram. Currently losing interest in IG since I feel like I see lots of repeated content.
Where else are you visiting?
Twitter: Hate it with a passion. Primarily use it at conference and other such ad-hoc gatherings. Impenetrable UX (I still have no idea how anything works after 10 years of trying), impossible to get the feed working the way I want it, horrible use of space (somehow way less efficient than Facebook even though it's supposed to be for short messages), threading/replies/etc impossible to follow.
Strava: Post all workouts (multiple per day between bicycle/run/peloton/etc). Follow a handful of people. Non-addictive but I don't necessarily derive a ton of enjoyment from it either. Great for tracking my workout data but the 'social' part is something i don't much care about either way.
Reddit: Almost never; makes me feel like an old grump complaining about 'kids these days'. Every subreddit I try makes me feel like it's 1996 again and everything is new, and everyone is wowed by the same old stuff and rehashing the same old political/religious/etc arguments. It feels 20 years out of date to me. I keep hearing you just need to find the 'right' subreddits for you, but so far, no luck.
Instagram: I use it/post fairly regularly. Not quite sure why. I don't enjoy it more than when I see the same pictures on Facebook.
Likely the way I derive value from these things is that I don't care about brands/influencers/etc. People who really like Instagram and Twitter seem to care more deeply than I do about random people they've never met. The reason I derive more value from Facebook than any of the others is REAL people I actually known and care about are there, and their content interests me. I have no more use for 'online personalities' than I have for reality TV.
Twitter - self promotion via posting art and chatting with industry folks, but no real feed-reading.
Mastodon - a clone of twitter, see above.
Inoreader - RSS feed reader for all the actual consuming once every ~2 weeks.
Overall - almost non-existent consuming other than the personal blog ... what can I say, I like it nice and quiet. :)
Facebook: I have a small number of friends on Facebook, but I never use it for posting personal things about my life, just to follow people.
RSS: I follow a lot of software projects, software developer blogs, and some Christian leaders/bloggers. This overlaps with Twitter to some extent but more for interesting articles or product updates that I don't want to miss.
Reddit: I follow some tech and software dev reddits, but it seems like there are too many beginner questions rather than interesting discussions
Blog: I have a blog in the works, not actively writing on it yet
That made me wonder if Jesus Chris was alive today whether he would have a twitter account for you to follow.
Instagram: Follow church related stuff
Facebook: All my close friends and family, and some groups
LinkedIn: Don't really accept connect requests from people i don't know, so just really professional connections.
Reddit: I follow some bike subreddits, and some tech, try to avoid r/all
HN: For the news
The moderator abuse on HN makes me want to find another "social network" site to waste my precious time on.
(and, yes, I do in fact know this post will get downvoted because it is "uninteresting" to talk about people abusing the moderation system but, as they say, karma's a bitch)
[^0]: https://micro.blog/
Great if you are interested in getting news from a niche area - let's say you follow 10 high profile VR people on twitter, and then half of them post an article about some VR thing, I'll see that on Nuzzel, and I won't have to scroll through Twitter and mentally cluster/count to know about the hot new thing in VR that VR people are talking about.
* Groups: My primary use of Facebook. I'm involved with several local and special interest groups.
* Messenger: It's better than SMS.
* Videos: The video system is really good, and I've subscribed to several channels. Mostly industry, intellectual, and educational channels.
* Walls: When I ask myself "I wounder what that person I fell out of touch with 2 years ago is up to" this is where I go.
* Events: If I feel the need to go out and get some R&R but I don't have any plans I check this for things to do.
IRC: Classics never die.
Special interest webforms: Another place to meet people with similar hobbies.
Discord: This is starting to take over IRC in several communities I am involved in. It's Slack for fun things instead of work things. I watch about a dozen topics in a half dozen "servers".
Twitter: I like Twitter but it took me a few years to get it. I follow a mix of shitposting anime avatars and more serious accounts which I should prune this weekend come to think of it. I've slowly transitioned over time from one of those shitposting accounts to just using my actual name and photo. It's good fun but only if you don't take it seriously.
Reddit: It's great for searching for specific communities ie: /r/thatpeelingfeeling or /r/depthdub but I don't use it too often unless I'm interesting in something in particular
Instagram: I post rarely. I'll sometimes post a photo of a meal if I'm with friends and jokingly say "Look at me, being a big millenial piece of shit" jokingly, haha.
RSS: I use Newsblur daily and it's super nice.
Blog: I sometimes write things but my site is more of an excuse to write code.
Snapchat: It's popular but I could care less. It feels like a chore honestly.
Twitter/Product Hunt (Really don't like twitter, gradually moving on)
Slack (Dislike it because of system footprint it imposes)
YouTube/Google+/GSuite
Have disliked Facebook since 2006.
Twitter: I follow a number of intellectuals I respect and hope to be linked to interesting articles and papers.
Facebook: I check for event invites as part of my daily routine but avoid reading my feed.
Newsblur: Following lots of blogs and some Tumblrs.
Blog: I don't post enough.
Regularly (once or twice a week) - linkedin - ello
Infrequently (once every week or two or three or...) - facebook (I hate it, but all my friends/family are there) - google+ (photography groups) - vimeo
Practically never (once a year... maybe) - pinterest - flickr (really just to remind myself it's still there) - tumblr
It's fast, text-based and the channel I'm on is populated by cool guys doing original pieces of programming (a weblink for the curious: https://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.rizon.net?channels=#/g/dpt).
A little bit of Twitter & Pinterest, the former for typically just for sharing my content (but I have very few followers), the latter for ideas/collections (and for work, of course).
From time to time "I" like things on Facebook, typically when my wife gets my phone and likes her posts :)
IG, PH, FB, Twitter, Indiehackers, Growthhackers, Pocket, Slack Groups, and Feedly.
ATM I'm trying to consolidate everything on Feedly and Pocket (as a read-later) but it isn't easy.
I use reddit to follow a very small number of specialized topics and very occasionally post.
that's it.
Reddit for more topic-specific stuff (mechanical keyboards, D&D etc)
SMS for person-to-person chat
I have a blog for whenever I feel like writing a blog post, or showcasing software stuff I'm working on
Also, the phone app is extremely adamant that I upload ALL my photos to Google, which I don't want to do. If you only want to selectively upload stuff, the interface really gets in your way.
Google photos is extremely annoying because it requires me to give names to albums, while Google+ is perfectly happy with untitled posts. You can share without creating a new album... but only from your phone, not from your desktop, and if you do it from your phone you very quickly lose the reference to the untitled "album". Nor to mention that you don't have a chronological view of what you shared with whom.
Google+ had a very good permission model, Google photos lacks this, AFAICT. Also, I use a paid Google Apps account, and very often people with free Gmail accounts can't see the photos I share with them. I couldn't determine what causes this, or how to fix it. Sometimes it happens, sometimes not.
Minor gripe, but I strongly dislike the reverse chronological view used by the phone app.
With Google+, the people I shared photos with received an e-mail notification (albeit not always... again, another frustrating bug). With Google photos they get a push notification on their phone, which they dislike (perfectly understandable, IMO). Also, they could just click on the link in the e-mail and see the pictures in their browser, Google photos requires an app to be installed.
I could go on and on.
Even if Google photos would not be so spectacularly dysfunctional, I would still prefer to move away from Google services as much as it's possible.
I'd rather just use a simple, paid service where I could upload pictures (in original quality, with full EXIF data) either from the desktop or from a mobile device, and where I could share untitled posts (albums) with people who'd get the notification via e-mail and access them via the browser (or some app, but the browser must always work). The albums should be downloadable as zip files (in original quality and with full EXIF data) by the people I shared them with.
I tried SmugMug, and it kind of works, except that it doesn't support a "naked" custom domain, so example.com doesn't work, but www.example.com and pics.example.com work. This might seem like a minor gripe, but I want to do it right if I do it at all.
I am very tempted to write something myself.
I have flipboard app on my phone. I have a feed for science and tech.
Twitter to follow some professionals like John Carmack.
Youtube/Google+
Use as in glansing over, stalking & timewasting: everything.
- Slack for work
- Reddit, more for information finding
- Facebook and Instagram periodically, maybe once a week at most
I use Twitter and ProductHunt.
The heat map "revelations" earlier this year was slightly fascinating but made me wonder how many of those writing or commenting about it have actually ever used Strava.
Disclosure: I don't "race" using Strava and use "common sense" to avoid taking risks, etc - the riskiest thing to health for most people these days are sedentary activities.
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