Ask HN: What Social Media are you using outside HN?

[mkirklions]

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?

[rconti]

Facebook: All the time. Virtually everyone I know, virtually every event I go to, virtually every business I frequent keeps their content up to date. I derive great value from it.

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 It feels 20 years out of date to me.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.

[kradeelav]

Tumblr - still the most reliable place to find portfolio art blogs that update every now and then without the opinion fluff. While I do have an art-only blog, I use it mostly for my (separate) personal blog for genuine essays & scrapbooking of interesting links across the internet. May eventually migrate to dreamwidth, though I'm going to miss being able to reblog other folks artwork.

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. :)

[iBelieve]

Twitter: I follow Christian leaders I respect as well as a bunch of software developers and some software projects

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

[jacquesm]

> I follow Christian leaders I respect

That made me wonder if Jesus Chris was alive today whether he would have a twitter account for you to follow.

[randomsofr]

Twitter: I follow mostly programming related accounts.

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

[trav4225]

lol, i don't want to make assumptions, but it's hard to not wonder if this post is being downvoted simply because it mentions "church"...

[lou1306]

Mostly Reddit and (sigh) Facebook. Recently I've been experimenting both Mastodon and micro.blog [^0]. Different approaches to federation/decentralization, both quite interesting.

[^0]: https://micro.blog/

[jedanbik]

I use Nuzzel to track things shared by multiple people that I follow on various platforms such as Twitter that are trending over a given timeframe.

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.

http://nuzzel.com/

[lev99]

Facebook:

    * 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. 

LinkedIn: Early in my career I created a LinkedIn page. I've received several job offers from it over the years, and even accepted two. I keep it up, and use it as a reference to build my resume. If I'm considering switching offices I flip that switch to get a feel for the current local labor market and how it matches with my skill set.

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".

[spondyl]

Facebook: Eh, I don't check it but I use Messenger at least a few times a day. Events is neat but I never go to any. It was useful for flat hunting because there's a closed group on there with about 70K people in my city. Things like that are pretty priceless.

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.

[abruzzi]

I don’t use any of the “social networks”. Instead I frequent topic specific forums that are targeted towards things I’m interested in: advrider.com for motorcycle discussion, photrio.com and pentaxforums.com for photography and darkroom relegated info, gearslutz.com for synthesizer and music recording discussion.

[s_dev]

Subreddits: /r/Ireland /r/DevelEire /r/europe /r/swift+programming+webdev+unixporn+linuxmasterrace+etc (Still a reddit addict after years)

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.

[Symmetry]

Subreddits: AskHistorians, SpaceX, NeutralPolitics, and a number of others.

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.

[skurpyun]

Frequently (daily, or a couple times per day) - reddit/imgur (news, jokes, tech stuff, etc) - instagram (for the pics... though slowly losing interest due to the ads) - twitter (news, fake-news, and tech stuff) - HN (news) - telegram (various programming channels)

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

[omgbananas]

Sublevel. The design is pretty good, but it's a little lacking on features which may or may not be a good thing.

https://sublevel.net

[mabynogy]

IRC! It's the best system I've tried to get "social" interactions.

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).

[ecesena]

Mostly Medium, and increasingly Linkedin. Both mostly for writing & reading blog posts.

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 :)

[eclat]

Reddit but looking for an alternative, I can't seem to amalgamate the information I want to read even though I've painstakingly organised everything into multireddits in the past.

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.

[markkat]

https://hubski.com thoughtful conversations

[iamthepieman]

I use Marco Polo to stay in touch with family. Both my wife's family and my own discovered it a couple of months ago and it's a great immediate way to stay in touch with each others daily lives.

I use reddit to follow a very small number of specialized topics and very occasionally post.

that's it.

[fenwick67]

Mastodon for general musings, art-posting and feed-scrolling

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

[protomyth]

Twitter: sadly, the UI that keeps showing me people's favorites instead of just their retweets is killing my enjoyment. I really wish they would quit screwing around with someone that should be so simple.

[maleno]

This was really bugging me until I realised that sorting the people I follow into lists basically reverts my feeds into a standard chronological timeline again. Minus Twitter's "screwing around", the site is actually useable. Might take a bit of work if you follow a lot of people, but it's totally been worth it for me at least.

[4ad]

I wish I could see the feed without any retweets at all. Just new tweets.