Anti-social: It's fads, not friends, which now dominate social media feeds (opens in new tab)  🏴‍☠️Piracy  Content type: Discussion  3 articles covering this post

This article has struck a nerve in the comment section. It's describing how traditional social media sites like Facebook and Instagram are not used for social features anymore, but for content discovery. The descriptions of how people are using Facebook to find new content anonymously are not that different from how we use Hacker News, which has reignited the debate about whether Hacker News is social media.

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