[HN Gopher] The Toilet Theory of the Internet
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       The Toilet Theory of the Internet
        
       Author : fortran77
       Score  : 24 points
       Date   : 2024-05-19 20:54 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.theatlantic.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.theatlantic.com)
        
       | RicoElectrico wrote:
       | https://archive.ph/NJsKY
        
       | sdwr wrote:
       | Absolute gem of an opening paragraph!
       | 
       | I like the implicit double meaning
        
         | morkalork wrote:
         | I feel called out by that first paragraph..
        
       | underlipton wrote:
       | > _Sometimes I read deeply, but the majority of my nonwork
       | surfing involves inattentively scrolling through clicky articles
       | to find the morsel that catches my eye, or pecking out some typo-
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       | 
       | Having your publisher's flawed monetization strategy dash the
       | attention you've so carefully built, in the middle of a paragraph
       | about how difficult building that attention is, is... something,
       | for sure. Yes, I see the archive link. That's beside the point.
        
         | user_7832 wrote:
         | _" Do The Atlantic writers dream of publicly available
         | electronic articles?"_
        
       | hgyjnbdet wrote:
       | Me on toilet reading the first paragraph: well played sir, well
       | played.
        
       | notjosh wrote:
       | I prefer "the shitmus test" - it's been my yardstick for
       | evaluating (some) startups over the last ~decade: if people will
       | open your app while they're poopin', then you pass the
       | litmus/shitmus test :)
        
       | akira2501 wrote:
       | > The toilet theory is mostly a reminder to myself that the
       | internet is a huge place that is visited countless times each day
       | by billions of people in between and during all the mundane
       | things they have to do.
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       | And billions of times by people who literally make it their lives
       | through leisure or business.
       | 
       | > but also that my imagined audience of undistracted, fully
       | engaged readers is an idealized one.
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       | I can understand this perspective from any artist but it sounds
       | exceptionally hollow to me when delivered from inside the belly
       | of a large commercial multimedia publisher like The Atlantic.
       | 
       | > and then, in some cases, gaming them in order to try to rank
       | higher in Google's results.
       | 
       | Indeed.
        
       | SkipperCat wrote:
       | A new spin on Enshitification...
        
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