I think this goes against common sense. We often see articles shared on social media or on link aggregators like Hacker News. Sometimes we read them. Sharing li

I think this goes against common sense. We often see articles shared on social media or on link aggregators like Hacker News. Sometimes we read them. Sharing links on the Internet is easy and works well. Surely that matters? But other times, you share a link and nothing happens. And it might not be a lot of traffic compared to what Google or some other large website can deliver randomly. And you might not benefit at all from a lot of strangers reading your article for some random reason. So why post anything in public at all? For me, since I just write short comments, a little bit of feedback is enough. I wrote about something I’m interested in, someone upvoted it, so it was worthwhile. I don’t care about reach. More users, more problems.