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maxleibman

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Solutions Architect. Recovering project manager. Maker of small-batch, artisanal bad jokes.

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AI didn’t ruin Google. Cynical content farmers ruined Google. SEO ruined Google. GOOGLE ruined Google.

Npars01 , (edited )
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Twitter was ruined by its investors.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/12/24/elon-musk-twitter-funders/
https://fortune.com/2023/06/02/elon-musk-twitter-deal-valuation-investors/

Like Twitter, Google's investors ruined Google.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/07/heres-a-look-at-who.html
https://observer.com/2023/06/google-saudi-arabia-data-center-protest/

Like Google, Apple's investors ruined Apple.
https://www.businessinsider.com/saudi-arabia-crown-prince-visits-apple-google-2018-4

Beginning to see a trend here...

the_Effekt ,
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The cost of taking money from someone is always bigger than what you get.

When that someone is wealth, that cost comes with schemes and strategies and no concern for the long term health of the company they invested in.

maxleibman , to random
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If you're procrastinating and feeling stuck, practicing mindfulness can be a great way to be more present with your unfinished obligations and sense of guilt.

maxleibman , to random
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According to tradition, when Jesus rises from the tomb on Sunday, if he sees his shadow we’ll have six more weeks of Lent.

Tim_Eagon ,
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@maxleibman No, I can't take six more weeks of my wife's reduced caffeine intake! 😀

maxleibman , to random
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"But SEO is just giving people what they want!"

False.

Patient zero: if I search the web for a phone number, what I want is to know whose phone number it is.

The top results should be pages that contain that phone number and information about what person or business it belongs to (including, if it's a business, their own web site).

What I don't want—what NOBODY wants—are spammy, scammy, for-pay reverse phone lookup companies.

maxleibman OP ,
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  1. Find information that already exists for free (or that is extremely cheap to get)*.

  2. Either put it behind a paywall or wrap it in ads until it is virtually unusable (or both).

  3. Find a way to increase the search ranking of your version.

This is not a business model, this is ruining the web for money.

  • ~ Also, some aren't even doing this (e.g., like a reverse phone lookup service that PRETENDS to have data it doesn't).

maxleibman , to random
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I'm not here to defend Meta or Threads. Fuck Zuckerberg.

But: if I wake up one morning and half my network is gone because a bunch of admins decided to defederate anyone who isn't enough of a purest about Threads, it's not Zuckerberg who I'm going to be mad at for ruining my Mastodon experience.

maxleibman OP ,
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When I complain about blocking servers that don’t block Threads, and you block me for having that opinion, you kind of prove my point.

maxleibman , to random
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Do community colleges invite celebrities to come speak at commencement and award them honorary associate's degrees?

maxleibman , to random
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Given the state of search on Mastodon, I would really appreciate it if you would all start linking to or explicitly naming the parties involved in drama rather than commenting on it obliquely.

maxleibman , to random
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If at first you don't succeed, don't sweat it, your parents are rich.

Wait. Your parents aren't rich?

Oh, man. This is embarrassing. Sorry, all of these success aphorisms are meant for people with privilege and resources.

You're on your own. Good luck.

gumpfloyd ,
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@maxleibman If being rich means being asshole and evil like most of them are.Then they can keep their soul rotting wealth.

maxleibman , to random
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As the number of people who see your joke on Mastodon increases, the likelihood of someone offering advice on how to solve the “problem” described in the joke approaches infinity.

maxleibman , to random
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Inside you there are two wolves.

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maxleibman , to random
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Here’s the thing about the “Invisible Hand”:

Regulators didn’t put microplastics in your water.

The nanny state didn’t lie to you about whether tobacco products caused cancer.

Socialism didn’t decide to take a third of your paycheck for health insurance coverage, and then still do everything in its power to deny your claims for lifesaving care.

Capitalists pursuing their self-interest did all of that, and more.

maxleibman , to random
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I want someone better than Joe Biden to be president, which is why I’m voting for Joe Biden in November.

maxleibman OP ,
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You think you deserve better than Biden? You’re right.

Unless you facilitate Trump (or any other Republican) getting into the White House, in which case you will get exactly the government you deserve.

IntentionallyBLANK ,
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@maxleibman
My 13 year old: Why are you voting for Biden?

Me: So maybe someday you can vote.

maxleibman , to random
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Your skill as a writer is inversely proportional to the number of words you have added to an article for SEO purposes.

maxleibman OP ,
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Afraid of content jobs being taken over by AI? Then write for humans.

Stop padding, stop vamping, stop over-explaining the background, stop putting the answer to the question below the fold, stop click-farming, stop writing for machine indexing, and stop putting a single word anywhere in the piece for any reason other than to make it a better piece of WRITING for HUMANS to read.

If you write for machines, you deserve to be replaced by an .

jillrhudy ,
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@maxleibman it was and is expensive, but I’m doing it. If @pluralistic can do it then I can. Click farming is irrelevant without ads or tracking. Just throwing thoughts about books out there into the Fediverse like messages in bottles. The people meant to find my blog will find it, and in the meantime it’s a great resource to remind myself how the threads of my reading history connect.

maxleibman , to random
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I post interesting things on Mastodon because I want to go viral.

I wear a mask at the grocery store because I don't want to go viral.

I contain multitudes.

maxleibman , to random
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Sorry, can’t. I’m engagement-farming by shitposting about Linux on Mastodon.

BeAware ,
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@maxleibman 6 months later, you better have moved on to "shitposting about how bad AI is" or you'll be slacking...🤣

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