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Ask HN: Why there is so much of everything on the internet?

Posted by tanaylakhani on Thursday October 05, 2023 @11:59AM
from the ask-hn dept.
We have so many task management apps, note taking apps, bookmarking apps.

We have hundreds if not thousands of articles on any given topic.

Moreover we have short form content, be it tweets, reels or shorts in bulk. Literally bulk.

Why do you think that is? Why are we creating more and more of everything?

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Re:Ask HN: Why there is so much of everything on the internet? by dougmwne on Thursday October 05, 2023 @12:21PM (#37780560)
Human ego and economic incentives.
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Re:Ask HN: Why there is so much of everything on the internet? by verdverm on Thursday October 05, 2023 @12:59PM (#37781067)
it's easy, fast, and cheap to copy|make bytes, and gets more so every day
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Re:Ask HN: Why there is so much of everything on the internet? by tanaylakhani on Friday October 06, 2023 @05:18AM (#37788625)
I wonder what / how it will be in couple years.
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Re:Ask HN: Why there is so much of everything on the internet? by ksaj on Thursday October 05, 2023 @02:19PM (#37782077)
It boils down to the reason the people who post such content refer to themselves as "creators" and "influencers." Most of the time the only thing they influence is how people spend their time at that moment. But there are enough people in the world that it is easy for them to repeat what's already been done a dozen times, and manage to have an audience who hasn't seen it the first 20 times around.

TikTok actually specializes in having a gazillion people all do the same thing, and feel like they are all influencers while they're at it.

The illusion of importance is a very strong draw.

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Re:Ask HN: Why there is so much of everything on the internet? by sysadm1n on Thursday October 05, 2023 @02:41PM (#37782368)
The 1% of people that are not lurking are creators[0] that is. Wait until '1%' value increases and there will be even more information and data being pumped out every millionth of a microsecond.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule

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