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Being too ambitious is a clever form of self-sabotage

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758 points alihm | 2 comments | 04 Jul 25 21:11 UTC | HN request time: 0.416s | source
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alganet[dead post] ◴[04 Jul 25 22:09 UTC] No.44468288[source]▶
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Myzel394 ◴[04 Jul 25 22:24 UTC] No.44468407[source]▶
Why's that?
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alganet ◴[04 Jul 25 22:32 UTC] No.44468467[source]▶
it rewards viral, vague behavior that only draws clicks but doesn't actually generate knowledge
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1. tayo42 ◴[05 Jul 25 16:53 UTC] No.44473961[source]▶
How does it do this? It hosts texts and newsletters? You mignt as well say any blog post hosting service is like that
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2. alganet ◴[05 Jul 25 20:43 UTC] No.44475401[source]▶
It presents likes and reshares metrics. This rewards content that is vague and viral. If you can trick people to make numbers go up, doesn't matter the quality of the content.

It's garbage. C'mon, we all know this already.