549 sats \ 1 reply \ @elvismercury 14 Apr \ parent \ on: About mostly_harmless
But I think we shouldn't expect that people who already have their own sites copy-paste their content into SN. I think SN should embrace that people have their own sites like via embedded comments. I want to see original sites, not just original content!
This is a very interesting idea -- it's like a more nuanced way for SN to inhabit the ecosystem: not all or nothing (either on SN or not) but little slices of SN projecting into the world in all these different ways. That's a cool vision. I wonder what the implications are?
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603 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 14 Apr
Hacker News biases it algorithm to favor external links (according to a tweet awhile ago by pg that I can't find). @kr and I discussed this recently. It's like the difference between an inside joke and one that's appealing more generally. It also lines up with dang's thoughts on what makes for interesting internet discussions, specifically that "generic discussion is not interesting, at least not on internet forums."
These days there should probably be some demotion for links to paywalls and trackers and pages with ads, favoring personal blogs and the small web.
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