Ask HN: What tangible benefits did you get from spending time on HN?
Ive all but given up social media elsewhere on the web, HN is one of my last holdouts, and I would argue thats its more of a forum than classic social media. HN does not engage in nefarious methods of keeping you engaged. It does not send you alerts telling you about what youve missed, it does not curate the home page to place you in your own personal echo chamber. These for me are its strengths. However, like any large social gathering, there will always be people whose views...
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