Hacker News with Generative AI: Social Networks

Emotional support across adulthood: A 60-year study of men’s social networks (psypost.org)
Emotional support networks among men shrink by 50% between the ages of 30 and 90, reflecting an average decrease from two to one emotional support providers, according to research published in Psychology & Aging.

Social Networks, Psychology, Aging, Men's Health

123 points by clockworksoul 27 days ago | 171 comments

Why you'll leave X (as well as Instagram and all the other private platforms) (allr.cat)
You too will leave X, Instagram and all the other big platforms that, for now, seem like irreplaceable components of our lives. The golden age of these social networks is behind us. And yes, that means for you, too.

Social Media, Social Networks, Technology, Trends, Future

36 points by elevensup 29 days ago | 12 comments

Ask HN: Are you on Bluesky or Mastodon? (ycombinator.com)
Just wondering which (if any) of these two social networks HN users frequents and why that choice.

Social Media, Social Networks, Mastodon, Bluesky

10 points by Gooblebrai 46 days ago | 14 comments

The Evaporative Cooling Effect in Social Networks (2010) (blogs.cornell.edu)
The Evaporative Cooling Effect describes the phenomenon that high value contributors leave a community because they cannot gain something from it, which leads to the decrease of the quality of the community.

Social Networks, Community Dynamics, Online Communities

106 points by yamrzou 48 days ago | 61 comments

Crawling More Politely Than Big Tech (cameronboehmer.com)
Dennis Schubert, engineer at Mozilla and noteworthy contributor to diapsora, a distributed, open-source social network, recently observed that 70% of the load on diaspora's servers was coming from poorly-behaved bots that feed the LLMs of a few big outfits.

Open Source, Artificial Intelligence, Web Crawling, Social Networks

43 points by pkghost 51 days ago | 17 comments

Mass psychogenic illness and the social network (2012) (nlm.nih.gov)
In October 2011, several adolescent girls at a high school in the town of Leroy, New York (pop. 7641), spontaneously developed facial tics, muscle twitching and garbled speech.

Social Networks, Health, Psychology, New York

42 points by JeremyNT 65 days ago | 17 comments

ActivityPub Databases (ghost.org)
The practicalities of pragmatism be damned, we've returned for another edition of endless antiquities and foregone conclusions of frightening fancy. Whether you're a casual consumer of ActivityPub curiosity or a hardened veteran vying for vocational vitality, there's something here for you.

ActivityPub, Databases, Social Networks

3 points by edent 68 days ago | 0 comments

The X (Twitter) to Bluesky Exodus (forbes.com)
X (formerly Twitter) users are leaving in droves to the social media site Bluesky—here’s why they’re leaving, and why they might not stay away.

Social Media, Twitter, Bluesky, Migrations, Social Networks

11 points by alex_suzuki 90 days ago | 4 comments

Gut microbiome strain-sharing within isolated village social networks (nature.com)
When humans assemble into face-to-face social networks, they create an extended social environment that permits exposure to the microbiome of others, thereby shaping the composition and diversity of the microbiome at individual and population levels1,2,3,4,5,6.

Microbiome, Social Networks, Biology, Science

3 points by mprast 91 days ago | 0 comments

The Network Of Time: Choose any two people to see how they connect thorough time (networkoftime.com)
Choose any two people to see how they can be connected through encounters in time.

History, Social Networks, Data Visualization, Genealogy

19 points by thunderbong 102 days ago | 8 comments

With AI, the future of augmented reality is in your ears (crazystupidtech.com)
Dennis Crowley has built his career at the intersection of emerging technologies and human behavior. Twenty years ago, as a 25-year-old inspired by Harry Potter's Marauder's Map, he created Dodgeball—turning text messaging into a way for friends to find each other in the city. When the iPhone emerged, he launched Foursquare, riding the convergence of GPS, apps, and our growing comfort with social networks to transform how we interact with places around us.

Augmented Reality, Artificial Intelligence, Technology, Mobile Apps, Social Networks

30 points by rmason 104 days ago | 25 comments

Bluesky's AT Protocol: Pros and Cons for Developers (thenewstack.io)

Bluesky, Social Networks, Decentralization, Development, Protocols

118 points by steveklabnik 106 days ago | 61 comments

Join the WikiFeet Dating Beta (wikifeet.com)
Development is going well. I’d like to thank everyone (guys and girls) who shared with me their opinions, suggestions and concerns. You’ve been a great help and motivator.

Dating, Social Networks, Beta Testing

4 points by popcalc 139 days ago | 1 comments

With Bluesky, the social media echo chamber is back in vogue (ft.com)
With Bluesky, the social media echo chamber is back in vogue

Social Media, Social Networks, Internet Culture, Censorship

5 points by musha68k 148 days ago | 5 comments

The Social Web Foundation Is Shaping the Next Era of the Web (werd.io)
I’m extraordinarily excited about the launch of the Social Web Foundation, which has been created to promote and support the growth of the Fediverse: the interoperable social network powered by the ActivityPub protocol.

Social Networks, Open Source, Decentralization

9 points by benwerd 149 days ago | 5 comments

With Bluesky, the social media echo chamber is back in vogue (ft.com)
With Bluesky, the social media echo chamber is back in vogue

Social Media, Social Networks, Censorship, Free Speech

19 points by NavinF 150 days ago | 23 comments

Show HN: Gridtalk - Leave comments anywhere on Earth (Flask + MapTiler) (gridtalk.xyz)
Add a comment for location:

Web Development, Mapping, Social Networks

10 points by rh3939 152 days ago | 2 comments

Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon – Postgres Style (crunchydata.com)

Database, SQL, Kevin Bacon, Entertainment, Social Networks

14 points by plaur782 200 days ago | 5 comments

Mapping Hacker News to find who knows what in the HN community (wilsonl.in)