isn't HN more like professional news/discussion place?
is it considered social media?
is it considered social media?
Whether or not is it indeed less toxic is up for debate.
It's also fun to throw caution to the wind with a "fuck it" and just let your comment fade away after having ranted at the clouds.
I see enough racist and misogynist comments here to know that isn't true. And that's not even considering the low-knowledge comments offered up as expertise.
I long for the days of a Slashdot where you could filter out anyone with a UID greater than 200K or so, and it'd be nothing but 20yr experts in IT dropping rugged after rugged of tremendously insightful analysis. (Granted there was also plenty of GNAA frist psot stuff.)
If you had a similar filter here it'd likely have the the opposite effect.
It seems to be obviously social media to me
The algorithm has consumed reels/shorts/tiktok/insta. Being extremely inflammatory is rewarded there.
Is BeReal not a social media because there's no algorithmic feed?