Everyone says they are packing up. But most of the people I’ve seen complain either are still on the site they complain about, or left briefly just to realize that other sites aren’t any better and came back.
I’ve left everything (Facebook, Instagram, I’ve even deleted the YouTube app from my phone, etc.) apart from HN. I occasionally look at Twitter, but only when someone sends me a link.
Me too, except for YouTube. I'm still hopelessly addicted to YouTube, but I'm working on it. I also ditched my smartphone eight months ago and going strong, zero desire to return to it.
Seriously, fuck all this shit. Some people love to say that love of the old web is just nostalgia and they are free to think what they want.
What really helped me to go through the YouTube backlog quickly was a user-script sending closed captions to an LLM to summarize, with some custom instructions of what I want. Occasionally I will ask a follow-up question. Now, I can read the summary of an hour-long video in 3 minutes and close it. I only watch or listen to videos that I really want to hear in full.
eggbrain · · focus · HN ↗
xanderlewis · · focus · HN ↗
So there are some counterexamples.
sodapopcan · · focus · HN ↗
Seriously, fuck all this shit. Some people love to say that love of the old web is just nostalgia and they are free to think what they want.
pllbnk · · focus · HN ↗