[HN Gopher] Other sites like HN?
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Other sites like HN?
Looking for other sites like HN where articles and other
interesting bits of information are shared. Hope this is ok to
post! Thanks!
Author : kreid1
Score : 23 points
Date : 2021-12-29 18:18 UTC (4 hours ago)
| themodelplumber wrote:
| There are a lot...many will be better once you add their filters
| or join the right sections/communities.
|
| Steemit
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| Lemmy
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| Raddle
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| Reddit
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| Tildes
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| Metafilter
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| Lancebase
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| Folkd
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| Pythonic news
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| Echo js
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| Littr.me
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| 20-things
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| Lobste.rs
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| Hackaday
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| Southgate amateur radio news
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| Soylent news
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| Kottke.org
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| Federated thingies like Mastodon
|
| (Drum roll please...)
|
| Facebook groups
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| Twitter lists
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| Email lists
| cyansmoker wrote:
| I am very curious about Facebook groups: did you find good
| ones? My experience with Facebook content has been total
| garbage and I'd like to know if my experience is just
| circumstantial.
| netizen-936824 wrote:
| There are some solid communities but for me it wasn't worth
| the price of being on that dumpster fire
| themodelplumber wrote:
| Yep, there are some amazing FB groups out there still. Some
| of them are even still Public groups, which I lurk in only
| because of how the Public model works, but the content is
| incredible. SF books, SF movies, wargaming, some linuxes,
| specific ham radio models, specific niche meme groups too,
| and that's just what I've found useful. But also it's a
| terrific environment for retro things. Retro TTRPGs,
| programming languages you used to use a lot, stores you used
| to like, even.
|
| (If you're into art, be sure to check out art and artist
| groups/pages. People wonder where Flickr went and it's right
| there, not Instagram.)
|
| Keep in mind that some of these groups actively use their
| Files and Photos sections which can be like gold.
|
| FB's participation model does incentivize things like simple
| brigading & passive-aggressive behavior, though (IMO), so
| it's also a good idea to get a feel for the quality of
| discourse and moderation before diving in if you are
| interested in participating rather than lurking.
|
| It's really too bad the participation model has to be so
| static across the entire platform, because some of the groups
| are one or two customizations/tweaks away from being really
| epic with regard to community particpation. You could solve a
| lot of the social problems there with a more dynamic approach
| to the software design & provisioning.
| kreid1 wrote:
| This is exactly what I was looking for, thanks!
| rafiki6 wrote:
| Twitter, but you really need to spend your time crafting your
| feed and figuring out how to get around the algorithm
| pigeonholing you.
| touggourt wrote:
| linuxfr.org (in french)
| raffraffraff wrote:
| Advice to myself (a while back when I wondered the same thing)...
| put the phone down once you've reached the end of page 1, and the
| first page of new submissions. Life is for living, tech is for
| 'doing', and anything more than 20 minutes online is
| procrastination.
|
| You're a different person with different requirements, but I
| thought I'd just throw in my 2c.
|
| PS: I rarely keep it to 20 minutes a day but I try
| cblconfederate wrote:
| You're right, there is also Twitter
| jcun4128 wrote:
| I think about this too regarding being a producer vs. consumer
|
| Still I get to the point where I can't think/function anymore,
| and then find something to do/surf something/get those points
| netizen-936824 wrote:
| Something to keep in mind is that this is a balance, like
| everything else in life.
|
| As humans we are integration machines. We need to take in
| novel information in order to combine it and produce new
| novel information. HN definitely helps with that, as the
| bullshit here is at a minimum with interesting technical
| information all over the place. Its honestly a gold mine,
| similar to what Slashdot was in yesteryear.
|
| I have a similar question to OP: when HN dies like Slashdot,
| what's next?
|
| Honestly my guess is that I won't get a solid answer in this
| thread, but some time after HN dies I'll just find myself on
| the next thing just like I found HN years after I left
| Slashdot
| jcun4128 wrote:
| I'm curious is Techmeme in the ballpark or no?
|
| Hackaday was already listed, that's nuts so much creativity
| on there.
|
| IEEE video friday's is good imo regarding robotics stuff.
| dogline wrote:
| Wait, there's a 'new' button?
| BigHatLogan wrote:
| Well said. I've been thinking about my "information diet" a lot
| recently, and I've been wondering what I've gotten out of it. I
| spend so much time on HN, Twitter, YouTube, and Reddit--to the
| tune of well over ten thousand hours over the past few years,
| and that's a conservative estimate.
|
| After all of that, I still want more and more, but I'm not sure
| what exactly I want more of and I don't know if I've gained
| anything from it in the first place. I don't even feel
| particularly satisfied visiting any of these sites--usually
| some mixture of frustration, anxiousness, or some other
| negative emotion. Occasionally I'll find an interesting thread
| here, a funny Reddit thread, or an informative Youtube video,
| but the "hit" goes away relatively quickly, I forget all about
| it, and minutes--sometimes seconds!--later I'm craving the next
| hit.
|
| That's my long way of saying: Yes, I agree with you and with
| this advice. Put the phone down after hitting the end of Page
| 1. Don't refresh the page every few minutes. Don't aimlessly
| open tab after tab with articles and videos you'll "eventually"
| get to (I have over five hundred tabs open right now on this
| laptop). There's no end in sight, and the road itself hasn't
| been too satisfying either.
| crate_barre wrote:
| This question makes me feel like HN is becoming lame.
| xqoiu wrote:
| kreid1 wrote:
| This reply makes me feel like you're lame.
| analognoise wrote:
| We are all lame on this blessed day after the Eternal
| September.
| brudgers wrote:
| As a gateway to YC, Eternal September is a feature not a
| bug...HN is designed for people who are continuously
| curious about new things.
|
| Unlike a Usenet group, there's not a topic silo. The cure
| for seeing 'the same old thing weariness' is submitting
| something that isn't the same old thing.
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