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673 sats \ 2 replies \ @freetx 16 Jan \ on: The dead internet vs the Lightning network mostly_harmless
The content on the internet is made up of 2 main factions: DIT and Insane People.
- 99.9% of Wikipedia users only browse and never create
- 97%+ of redditors only browse and never create
- 99.9% of youtubers browse and never create
- same general level is probably true for X, Facebook, Instagram, etc....
Critically, there are power laws which govern those who create. Lets take wikipedia as an example: Wikipedia has about 110K active editors and gets about 114M daily active readers (so creators only make up .1% of total audience). However out of the active 110K editors, 1000 of them create 75% of all content!
Further power-laws exist within that group of 1000. One of the top editors, does 385 edits per day and has been doing so for 15+ years. Thats one edit every 4 minutes (assuming he never sleeps)!
The top reviewer on Amazon has 35K reviews, averaging over 3000 per year (8 per day).
The same power-laws are true for reddit, youtube, instagram, etc.
Conclusion: Most of what you read on the internet is either a bot or an insane person.
100% agree with the 'dead internet' theory.
Twitter is imo 70-80% bots... and Youtube is getting worse.
We should be prepared for a future where... without the incentives of Bitcoin and Lightning specifically 70% of the internet is... bot comments and 'engagement'.
I would love to see just for one day where all the youtube 'comments' and engagement is actual people. I think it would look vastly different.
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a bot or an insane person
I was wondering who writes 3000 reviews per year
I tried writing an Amazon review once. I didn't meet the minimum character requirement or something. That was the end of my noble experiment
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