The Twitter implosion has made me realize how I really used Twitter and what sort of alternative I'd join. Primarily a place where I can get a filtered list of news articles and posts from people I'm interested in what they have to say. Comments on posts are fine but it's more about getting all the content in the same place. HN is pretty close to that, but maybe a bit too niche.
jader201|3 years ago
On Twitter, the filtering is done by you (mostly: you can’t choose what content is posted by those you follow, or the comments others post).
On HN, the filtering is done by others (mostly: you can filter by “Show HN”, “Ask HN”, new, etc.)
Twitter is like an RSS feed of specific people/companies/interests that you get to select and everyone’s is unique, where HN is a crowd curated — and dang moderated — list of links, and everyone sees the same list.
I don’t think HN is close at all to what Twitter is (for better and worse).
Markoff|3 years ago
That's why I read HN via Serializer (disabled all other websites), because I don't really wanna curated HN homepage from certain brigades and I wanna choose what I read and what _I_ find interesting. You can also get your individual URL to share across devices, which I find very useful.
https://serializer.io/
egberts1|3 years ago
jader201|3 years ago
headsoup|3 years ago