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Re:Disqus, a dark commenting system by tremon on Friday February 05, 2021 @04:52AM (#26034657)
the problem with self-hosting vs. Medium is that it is harder for the authors to reach a large audience.

Isn't this is a problem that search engines were intended to solve? Before they went into the ad business, I mean?

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Re:Disqus, a dark commenting system by dredmorbius on Friday February 05, 2021 @10:14AM (#26037163)
People seem to stream more than they'll search.

Google's daily search stats are getting harder to find, but with 3.8 billion Internet users and probably a few billion searches/day, it's likely single-digit searches per person per day, as a mean.

Algorithmic/stream discovery, as on Facebook, or HN, is at least an order of magnitude higher.

https://ardorseo.com/blog/how-many-google-searches-per-day/

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