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3 years ago
The HN demographics distribution is starting to skew older over time, compared to this older poll: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5536734
Reddit stats are had to come by, but I wonder if the users who use it for mostly news and text rather than interesting images/videos/memes (would old.reddit.com users be a good proxy?) has aged the same way.
I think "faster" and "flashier" content wins out in social media, so for example the text interaction people have left for twitter and Substack. Heck, compare pg's amount of public comments here vs all his content on Twitter, sama when he was still with YC, the other YC people, etc. (I mean they probably have alts but still).
I expect that certain ways HN was designed are becoming less attractive as a platform for the population at large, like the 80-character title limit so that it could fit a title in a single terminal line (although I personally love this more than I hate it, keeps things to-the-point).
I wonder what the TikTok version of the HN-type community is like?
It'll be like HN. I don't see where else it can go in terms of media delivery. Nothing seems faster than text to skim through. I could see an ML trained for your specific requirements so only the stories you like surface. I must click on 10% of the headlines and then engage with 10% of those, so that would save time. Then the text/commenting interface would be much the same.