Ask HN: What other forums or social networks do you use?
A lot of people are leaving major social networks like Reddit and Facebook - especially hackers - so I'm curious where they're settling in instead. I hear about Lobsters, Notabug, Ruqqus, Mastodon, etc., and there's probably dozens more, so I'd like to hear about what you use and how it suits you.
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[ 3.2 ms ] story [ 51.6 ms ] thread1 - https://indiehackers.com
2- https://producthunt.com
At first, it was great with a diverse community of early adopters, entrepreneurs, designers, developers and others.
Noticing that stuff gets a lot of views if posted there, it became popular among growth hackers - which turned into spam and timing/review strategies. They post a product and get employees and friends to vote and comment on how great it is and how their "list of best kale recipes for makers" is such a great product ahead of its time.
Then it became overly positive, to the point where you could barely find a critique on any post - people would follow and upvote and require you to do the same.
Also a lot of coming soon products got posted, and a lot of "list of X, list of Y" products started to surface which became boring to follow after a while. It stopped being a thing for early adopters and just became another media outlet where people post their sideprojects or new updates/launches of their products.
I'm in the process of gathering some friends and we plan to start a blog/newsletter, just for us. We're going to share our projects, achievements and cool stuff we enjoy. We've already had a small success - I connected two of my friends who study Psychology and Biomedical Engineering at different universities and together we're going to write an article about differences in brain structure and behavior.
Twitter, HN, Reddit, occasional IG for art/inspiration/friends updates
I've liked Gurlic too a lot, but I'm not sure how well it will scale to a more heterogeneous community. It reminds me a lot of HN but broader in its focus and smaller.
These exist - Japanese instances, German instances, an instance for academia, etc. - but instance discovery and search in general is pretty bad on Mastodon. I think that's a key problem that'd holding a lot of the potential of federation back.
I've been enjoying getting involved on Indie Hackers, I've been writing lots of posts and engaging with people there the past few weeks, like this one about the impact of Product-Led Growth on user researchers: https://www.indiehackers.com/post/i-interviewed-100-people-h...
Keep coming back to Indie Hackers because people are engaging positively and I'm finding little communities to follow. Never found that with Reddit.
> Keep coming back to Indie Hackers because people are engaging positively and I'm finding little communities to follow. Never found that with Reddit.
This was exactly what reddit was like, 10 years ago. Great little communities of passionate people (passionate about seeing faces in teacups or dragons fucking cars, but passionate all the same), a feeling of a community with a common culture. Nowadays even cutting out larger subreddits and following only smaller ones doesn't help, the energy and creativity has largely gone missing (IMO, YMMV, etc).
Tildes is a new one for me, but I am enjoying its simple UI and smaller community.
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