• jballs@sh.itjust.works
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    12 days ago

    “During October, we have seen that search traffic has dropped by more than 1 million referrals on average per week. If this rate of decline continues, current trends would suggest that total DAUqs [or daily active unique users] could fall in Q4, by a low-double-digit percentage from our current base of 130 million DAUqs,” Huffman wrote.

    Weird that not allowing people to use your site would lower the number of people using your site.

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          11 days ago

          It’s ok. The AI companies will scrape it and might spit it out for you.

          Correction bolded, but it was sad that was my first thought too

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          11 days ago

          I am trying to stop answering questions that I think are quickly searchable with “you have the entire world’s knowledge in your pocket”. It’s been a long time since trustworthy information has been easy to find on the internet.

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          11 days ago

          It’s like repeatedly hitting your genitalia with a wooden mallet and acting smug about it, if someone is asking for assistance.

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      11 days ago

      “People aren’t coming to our website so we are going to make it harder for people to come to our website.” - The dumbest motherfucker alive (and he’s competing with Trump and Altman)

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      11 days ago

      And permanently banning anyone that says anything remotely like what the advertisers don’t like.