t12hrow

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by t12hrow 4y ago
Hey man not at all and I'm glad we found a middle ground. Cheers mate!
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by t12hrow 4y ago
That's a fair argument, and I can't dispute it. Thinking about this made me reflect a different way to put it. It shouldn't be one vs. the other, but rather, 4chan (and similar forums) are a meta reading of the news and train
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by t12hrow 4y ago
> 4chan is usually demonstrably and objectively worse than any mainstream news at sharing important, relevant, and true information. Are you talking about trivial news reporting ("this thing happened today")? If so, yes. If you
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by t12hrow 4y ago
I don't know if I consider it small scale, it has around 45M views a month according to similarweb: https://www.similarweb.com/website/4chan.org/#overview . Of course, it's still small scale in relation t
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by t12hrow 4y ago
Yes, I've thought about that. In my opinion, the difference is that "you(s)" often reward controversial/contrarian takes. 4chan is already contrarian so what I mean here is going the opposite way. That is, you can go and
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by t12hrow 4y ago
I understand what you're saying, and it would definitely make for an interesting experiment. If every news piece meets that criteria, it would be a very specific subset of news, but valuable nonetheless.
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by t12hrow 4y ago
> (a) they're reasonably likely to materially affect some significant portion of readers sometime in the next 6 months, and (b) there's something they can do about it or in response to it. That's the entire point. Who are
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by t12hrow 4y ago
> perhaps government-funded I suggest the opposite. I'd like a proof that there is no government involvement. Believe it or not, I think the closest to this is ideal is 4chan /pol/. It's not backed by any major corpor
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by t12hrow 4y ago
Define news. Is it the local gossip section or large social shifts or trends? Is the release of GPT-4 news? Was covid news? Any sufficiently important event will eventually knock on your door, so it's not like you can stick your head o