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

43 points by mkirklions ↗ HN
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?

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slipwalker
Twitter ( for the most current news on my echo chamber ) and Linkedin.
photograve
What? HN is a social media actually!

I use Twitter and ProductHunt.

strooper
Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Reddit, and Google.
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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. :)

dev1n
Instagram, Twitter, Medium, YouTube.
overcast
Instagram for business. The rest is not needed in my life.
monkmartinez
Strava, Reddit
coatmatter
Strava is easily my favourite social network (if one could even call it that). It's non-addicting and the more I use it, the better I feel and more productive I am. I've never ever seen an argument on it either. Its positive flow-on effects are superb.

The heat map "revelations" earlier this year was slightly fascinating but made me wonder how many of those writing or commenting about it have actually ever used Strava.

Disclosure: I don't "race" using Strava and use "common sense" to avoid taking risks, etc - the riskiest thing to health for most people these days are sedentary activities.

4ad
I don't use social media. I have a Google+ account to share photos (and nothing else) with my family, but the bugs make that harder and harder, so I'll have to abandon it. (Any suggestions?)
beart
I use google photos to share with family without ever touching Google+. I have a shared "family" album with everyone invited to it. Any time I have new photos to share, I add them to that album and everyone gets a notification to check it out. Also, my significant other and I have our entire photo libraries shared with each other.
4ad
Thanks, see my parallel reply to coatmatter.
coatmatter
Share directly from the Photos app or photos.google.com - don't go to plus.google.com, it's dead (https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/06/how-mark-zuckerberg-...).
4ad
Google photos is extremely buggy too, and doesn't work the way I want it to work. It's almost impossible to upload a large number of photos from a desktop machine. It inevitably dies during the upload, then I have to figure out which pictures exactly didn't upload. And then I get duplicate pictures in the album, albeit not always.

Also, the phone app is extremely adamant that I upload ALL my photos to Google, which I don't want to do. If you only want to selectively upload stuff, the interface really gets in your way.

Google photos is extremely annoying because it requires me to give names to albums, while Google+ is perfectly happy with untitled posts. You can share without creating a new album... but only from your phone, not from your desktop, and if you do it from your phone you very quickly lose the reference to the untitled "album". Nor to mention that you don't have a chronological view of what you shared with whom.

Google+ had a very good permission model, Google photos lacks this, AFAICT. Also, I use a paid Google Apps account, and very often people with free Gmail accounts can't see the photos I share with them. I couldn't determine what causes this, or how to fix it. Sometimes it happens, sometimes not.

Minor gripe, but I strongly dislike the reverse chronological view used by the phone app.

With Google+, the people I shared photos with received an e-mail notification (albeit not always... again, another frustrating bug). With Google photos they get a push notification on their phone, which they dislike (perfectly understandable, IMO). Also, they could just click on the link in the e-mail and see the pictures in their browser, Google photos requires an app to be installed.

I could go on and on.

Even if Google photos would not be so spectacularly dysfunctional, I would still prefer to move away from Google services as much as it's possible.

I'd rather just use a simple, paid service where I could upload pictures (in original quality, with full EXIF data) either from the desktop or from a mobile device, and where I could share untitled posts (albums) with people who'd get the notification via e-mail and access them via the browser (or some app, but the browser must always work). The albums should be downloadable as zip files (in original quality and with full EXIF data) by the people I shared them with.

I tried SmugMug, and it kind of works, except that it doesn't support a "naked" custom domain, so example.com doesn't work, but www.example.com and pics.example.com work. This might seem like a minor gripe, but I want to do it right if I do it at all.

I am very tempted to write something myself.

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/

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.

quantumofmalice
gab.ai

the chans

[dead] unsurpriseddnvt
lol, hn asks for honest answers to an honest question, and then downvotes your choices

god forbid anyone should be informed of what's out there, whatever their cup of tea might be

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.
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.

NDT
Well, the Pope does.
jacquesm
There is a bit of a difference between the Pope and Jesus Christ himself. In fact if Jesus Christ were alive I don't think we'd be in much need for a Pope (and you'd be calling him Saint Peter).
zitterbewegung
All the ones that I'm forced to do because my friends tell me its a good idea.
client4
Does Keybase count? It allows me to update various contact methods and allows strangers to contact me in a verifiable manner.
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".

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