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Cake day: January 10th, 2021

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  • I’ve gone back there from time to time because there’s not the specialised subs here yet, or those that are don’t have the traffic.

    What I’ve found on the main dubs I used to frequent is that they are full of reactionary comments that have no grasp of history, context or empathy.

    The specialised subs, maybe were like this and I was just more tolerant to it, are full of low effort “please look at me doing absolutely fuck all in any way of producing meaningful content” posts.

    There’s far too many to actually get to the content with effort so the signal to noise ratio is too low to fight off my general contempt of the place.







  • I was using Reddit Is Fun on mobile and a heavily curated desktop feed and migrated here fully when RiF died.

    When I’ve looked at Reddit on desktop, it feels like a shadow of it’s former self in so far as some of the default subs are missing and others just seem filled with the same content reach time I’ve looked.

    While the place won’t die overnight, it will become more overrun with bots and karma farmers posting same content over and over.


  • There’s a funny anecdote from Professor Ian Roberts that he tells at the launch for his book “The Energy Glut”.

    He was approached by coca cola to carry out a study for them and they even suggested they would write the proposal for him so they could work together.

    He suggested his own proposal that he research the road deaths and injuries attributed to transporting their nutritionally valueless sugary drink around the world.

    He didn’t hear back from them!

    Sauce: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjPA_dlXoVM