Lol interesting point. I guess might be just totally different perspectives of thinking about it. I know whenever I write a troubleshooting question on reddit/forums etc, I try to include multiple forms of the same keyword (writing ”hackernews”/”hacker news”/”HN”) that’s relevant to what I’m talking about, in my post, with the idea that maybe it’ll help more search engines parse it for a greater variety of similarly-related queries. I know whenever I search google I often try multiple successive searches using variations of the same word(s) to try & catch any missed gems in the results.

So like, maybe you sound like the type trying to build a brand or something, and would benefit from more eyes on your content in a given time? Maybe some people are apocalypse preppers and like the idea of if their posts had a greater chance of surviving among the limited number of digital archives left standing in the ruins, lol

I think this is a great point; it’s much more important that ideas survive than that the posts themselves do. Even if Reddit gets turned off tomorrow, hundreds of thousands of people will know that the Tiananmen Square massacre happened. Hundreds of thousands of people aren’t going to read your blog about the oppressive Chinese regime.