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> For example, by coming to HN instead of any other source of articles you're implicitly deciding that being linked from here means there's a greater probabilit
by claudius 14y ago
> For example, by coming to HN instead of any other source of articles you're implicitly deciding that being linked from here means there's a greater probability of the article being good (for any definition of good you prefer).
Actually, I spent most of the time I spent here on /newest, where this is guaranteed to a smaller degree[0], offering a relatively diverse random subset of whatever someone wrote on the internet.
[0] Maybe apart from ‘X married Y but held hands with Z!!!!’.
- icebraining 14y agoI think you overestimate the diversity of /newest. It's still an extremely thin slice of the breadth of the Internet, which itself contains only a fraction of all content (there are still plenty of articles being printed and not put online). We're all heavily filtering what we consume, it's effectively impossible to do otherwise.