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Unpopular (?) opinion: marketing is killing the internet for absolutely no value to users. At one point, we had communities of people, and discussions, and things were ok. Then came a mountain of commercial, automated, focused psyops against users: spaming, shilling, astoturfing, censoring, profiling, brigading, ab testing, engagement tracking, JS, ad auctions, eye tracking and on and on. Reddit used to be a communit…
Unpopular (?) opinion: marketing is killing the internet for absolutely no value to users. At one point, we had communities of people, and discussions, and things were ok. Then came a mountain of commercial, automated, focused psyops against users: spaming, shilling, astoturfing, censoring, profiling, brigading, ab testing, engagement tracking, JS, ad auctions, eye tracking and on and on. Reddit used to be a communit…
Fair point, our goal was not to help people spam reddit, instead, I think one should contribute to the community and share their expertise, focus on contributing first.
Maybe something worth looking into as may affect other topics. (:
Searching for 'soaring' or 'gliders' or even 'gliding' does not show up the biggest subreddit about this topic, which is r/Gliding - as far as I know pretty SFW. But it shows unrelated and even smaller subs such as r/tailwind. Maybe something worth looking into as may affect other topics. (:
I tried searching for the programming language 'perl' expecting https://old.reddit.com/r/perl/ The results only showed 'LaTeX' and 'me_irl' (a meme subreddit). Good results for 'php', 'ruby', 'node', 'pascal', 'haskell'
Searching for 'soaring' or 'gliders' or even 'gliding' does not show up the biggest subreddit about this topic, which is r/Gliding - as far as I know pretty SFW. But it shows unrelated and even smaller subs such as r/tailwind. Maybe something worth looking into as may affect other topics. (:
On the other hand googling "soaring reddit", "gliders reddit" or "gliding reddit" shows r/Gliding top of the list.