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I'm grateful for Substack's ability to show me the sources of traffic. As I've previously mentioned, it keyed me in to the fact that Gwern himself had archived me. I was quite pleased to see a few people independently share my posts on HN too.
But, sometimes it raises more questions than it answers. Why are my posts being shared via the Steam forums? Why Slack? Who is using their company comms or a gaming website to talk about anything I've written?? I wish I knew, but it's a mystery that I'm unlikely to solve. I even saw Localhost:1881 in there, which I strongly suspect shouldn't be sending me any traffic.
After writing the above, I went back to my most popular article, the one about the effects of psilocybin on depression. Substack has 800 views from LinkedIn, 15 from Microsoft Office, 2 from the Brave browser (?).
I hope someone can tell me what the fuck is going on here.
Slack is used for some like Discord with less stupid name or by people working far more than gaming and exposed to it as a primary real-time chat. Also, some companies have very relaxed policies, that would make USA HR department die on spot.
You can be a software dev in a small 100% male company in Eastern Europe that has a chat channel for sharing porn.
maybe someone self-hosts "to read" list?
Why not? You posted that Avatar tech stuff? Seems quite easily linkable to some gaming discussions.
Appeared in some recommendations shown by browser?
link in .doc document I guess
This is both mind-blowing and completely believable.
car repair workshop/factories may have posters with almost naked women - is it also something that would not happen in USA?
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