Hacker news is definitely more a forum than social media platform. But the temptation to collect "likes" and the resulting dopamine high is a thing on HN too.
It is also usable as an endless stream of infotainment if your concern is plummeting productivity
That hit close to home. Gonna go shell into a server and start fixing stuff now...
And it has the convenient sleight of being somewhat related to work, so it can ocassionally bypass the “this is unproductive B.S.” procrastination filter.
agreed, if forums are social media then i've been a fucking social media junky since the 90s.