Or all the ppl missing Reddit are on HN to fill the need.
I usually browse Reddit with my morning coffee, this has been a pleasant alternative
The tech+(with some business) focused nature of the feed keeps folks off too.
No memes here.
HN instantly brought me "old" internet nostalgia. Geeks just talking about things in a mostly open minded way. Lack of memes, politics and "boring" design will be all positives for some.
It's thinly veiled behind more passive aggressively written prose than reddit, but it's here. No images, I'll grant, but as someone mistaken for conservative by liberals and liberal by conservatives I can assure you it's very much political.
It's also not exclusively negative and cynical, of course, and there are some great insights to be found here. I think you're being unfair with 90%. Maybe more like 70%?
Is there any social media that isn't largely cynical and negative?
I also notice how my mindset changes when I don't visit, which really just makes me think I should stop engaging in 90% of online discourse and discussion.
Maybe no? I only know of two (not including subreddits): HN and Slashdot. And of the two, Slashdot is far, far, more negative, with the weird addition of American style republican political views. Which, as a European reader, makes it feel like a very right wing place.
Are there any other forums I'm not aware of?
They fucked up and now I'll spend more time on here and /., is my guess. Unless there are other strong dork communities I should be looking into.
Edit: Ask HN thread showed up on my last question: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36293789
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When you see "Hacker News Hug" on here (recently due to Cloudflare's issues) or Reddit's "Hug of Death", the original was "Slashdotted", when tech people hosted personal sites on their _own_ home DSL (even Dial-up via Dynamic DNS!) connections. These asynchronous connections had terrible upload speed by design.
If their webpage hit the front news of Slashdot, their upload bandwidth very quickly ran out due to the torrent of traffic!
Sadly, I didn't win the tournament.
Username checks out.
Perhaps someone on HN has a more reliable source than my brain?
I probably got the telephone part mixed up but was right about being confusing to read aloud.
Can’t get a better source that /. itself!
With ~, ~/. could mean your home directory if your shell recognises ~ as $HOME.
Don’t think /. aka slashdot has any intrinsic meaning in Linux.
As opposed to today, where connects have terrible uploads speed because ISPs don't want you to host servers.
I've heard of people getting gigabit down, but only 16 mbps up.
Which essentially means you have X bandwidth to distribute between upstream and downstream. And it's far more profitable to sell X 40/10 Mbit connections vs selling a bunch of 25/25 Mbit ones, where most people there won't be using upload all that much.
DOCSIS 4.0 supports 10Gb/s down and 6Gb/s up using that same coaxial cable that's been in your house for decades.
I've started looking at that and arstechnica for my tech news replacements.
They also regularly open the invite threads here: https://old.reddit.com/r/tildes/
Also people who have been there for a while (not me) can invite their friends.
If reddit bungles this whole thing, the loss of /r/asknyc will be truly tragic. Such a great way to crowdsource local recommendations without the extra veneer of tourist feedback on top.
I'll miss my local and hobby subreddits. I hope I find something to replace them.
Reddit is on borrowed time, protest or not. No sense in getting attached to any particular site. The competition is just a few keystrokes away.
I remember reading Joel Spolsky's blog when he promoted Reddit. I jumped over for look and stayed. Threads and discussion were heavily tech focused. The format was a nice departure from slashdot, and there was a lack of digital "turf" wars. (Subreddits came along years later.)
16(?) years on - Reddit has metastisized into something different. I still enjoy parts of it, but it's definitely not the same beast it was in the beginning.