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4 votes
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I think Keyword Research doesn't work at all. Prove me otherwise!
Keyword Research and SEO are entire industries today. There are tools like ahrefs and semrush that promise to give you "trending" topic keywords for a sum of monthly subscription money. However,...
Keyword Research and SEO are entire industries today. There are tools like ahrefs and semrush that promise to give you "trending" topic keywords for a sum of monthly subscription money.
However, you can discard all their claims using a similar logic that you use to discard the claims of Astrologers, Voodooists, Stock Experts who "recommend" stocks, etc:
- If an Astrologer knows the future of everyone, wouldn't they profit massively from it themselves using the information rather than telling the trick to everyone else (just for a pittance)?
- If a Stock Expert knew that a stock's price will go up (and how much), won't they invest thousands and make millions themselves instead of giving those "tips" to "subscribers" and again, earn only a pittance?
- If SEO and Search Marketing companies knew exactly which keywords can rank your blog or site in the Google Search Engine, won't they write articles on those topics/keywords themselves and profit massively with the page views instead of revealing that secret to you for merely a few cents!
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If I fits, I sits: Starlink's self-heating internet satellite dishes are attracting cats
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2021 was the year lawmakers tried to regulate online speech
10 votes -
Inside the online movement to end work
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The art of the pause: Is anything on the internet real?
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Internet literacy atrophy
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High readability Wikipedia
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The great offline - The concept of “offline” is built on the earlier concept of “wilderness,” inheriting its flaws and hazards
8 votes -
LastPass is going to become an independent company
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China unleashed its propaganda machine on Peng Shuai’s #MeToo accusation. Her story still got out.
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Birds aren't real, or are they? Inside a Gen Z conspiracy movement
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VPN testing reveals poor privacy and security practices, hyperbolic claims
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Hackers are spamming businesses’ receipt printers with ‘antiwork’ manifestos
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Notes on Web3 for the "cautiously curious"
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How to scrub your online footprint?
I don't necessarily want to delete everything there is about me, but I want to significantly clean it. I've been deleting old accounts lately, I've seen some screenshots of my tweets on Reddit and...
I don't necessarily want to delete everything there is about me, but I want to significantly clean it. I've been deleting old accounts lately, I've seen some screenshots of my tweets on Reddit and I've asked the authors to delete them. They've been kind enough to do it.
But I feel like there's more that I need to do. I just realized that there are probably a lot of screenshots of YouTube comments and Tweets that I've put out there in the world with my name and face. It wouldn't be so bad if I didn't drastically increase my footprint last year during my time on Twitter.
I'm not a techy person, I was thinking about asking or hiring some type of hacker or expert to help me. Because they could probably find more information about me than me.
Can anyone help?
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Who controls the Internet? And should they?
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Can data die? Why one of the internet's oldest images lives on without its subject's consent
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The dark side of .io: How the UK is making web domain profits from a shady Cold War land deal
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Could search engines be fostering some Dunning-Kruger?
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Epistemology of the Internet — and of traditional media
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32 bit real estate
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Does the Internet feel American centric to you?
Maybe it's because I only interact with the side of the Internet that uses English.
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Hampster Economics - Pondering how a meme from a quarter-century ago might have gone over in today’s much-more-mature creator economy
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Why Section 230 'reform' effectively means Section 230 repeal
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Understanding how Facebook disappeared from the internet
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How mental health became a social media minefield
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What happens when the experience of celebrity becomes universal?
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Please stop closing forums and moving people to Discord
46 votes -
Weaponizing Middleboxes for TCP Reflected Amplification
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Tech workers rebel against a lame-ass Internet by bringing back ‘GeoCities-style’ Webrings
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Online trolls actually just assholes all the time, study finds
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A case study in digital radicalism
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Modern Luddism and the battle for your soul
11 votes -
You're probably not using the web's best browser (Vivaldi)
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Netflix intensifies ‘VPN ban’ and targets residential IP-addresses too
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Substack just made a major new hire as it goes after comic-book writers and expands its fiction efforts
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How to make friends over the internet
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Today is the World Wide Web's 30th birthday - On 6 Aug 1991, Tim Berners-Lee published the first page, and changed the world
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How did you find niche stuff before the Internet?
Over in the topic on the perceptions of teenage boys, it was asked, “How did you find niche stuff before the internet?” I thought this was an interesting question and wanted to open it up to hear...
Over in the topic on the perceptions of teenage boys, it was asked, “How did you find niche stuff before the internet?” I thought this was an interesting question and wanted to open it up to hear others’ memories about this.
Edit: Somewhat related, I saw this post today: The most unbelievable things about life before smartphones
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Never Gonna Give You Up has passed one billion views on YouTube
@Rick Astley: 1 BILLION views for Never Gonna Give You Up on @YouTube ! Amazing, crazy, wonderful!Rick ♥️https://t.co/mzyLznTr4R #NGGYU #NGGYU1Billion pic.twitter.com/p5xnn0OZcZ
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California’s ambitious fiber-Internet plan approved unanimously by legislature
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What are your favorite bits of more juvenile humor?
I was recently reminded of this classic 4chan greentext. Even today, it still has me in stitches. What your favorite funny bits that are not particularly sophisticated?
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Why have web pages dropped the www?
I don't know where to put this question, if here or in ~tech, but I chose here due to I want a response for someone who doesn't know all about internet. So my question is: why there is a trend of...
I don't know where to put this question, if here or in ~tech, but I chose here due to I want a response for someone who doesn't know all about internet.
So my question is: why there is a trend of removing the www of every web address? why it was standard in the first place and not now?
There are a handful of popular web pages that don't use a triple w in their link and they have replaced it or removed it. Tildes, for example, doesn't need triple w. Why?
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New ad-free search subscription service: Neeva
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What kind of text content you like that is hard to find on the internet?
I'm asking mainly to get an idea of what kind of content I might wanna write for my blog. I intend to share my writings on Tildes so it makes sense to know what might be of interest around here....
I'm asking mainly to get an idea of what kind of content I might wanna write for my blog. I intend to share my writings on Tildes so it makes sense to know what might be of interest around here. Plus, Tildes is my home on the internet. It would feel weird not to consider fellow Tilderinos when creating content.
Could be anything: a subject, a theme, a writing style, a certain length, or a combination of factors. Something that you actively seek, but that is not easy to come by.
For example, I like shorter articles (less than 2000 words) that deal with a very specific philosophical problem in accessible, non emotional language. Philosophy articles are often much longer than that, and also quite complicated.
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The Internet Is Rotting - The glue that holds humanity’s knowledge together is coming undone
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Have you felt or do you still feel the optimism of the Internet / Web 2.0 in the early 2000s and 2010s?
Title is the question. It's left open for your interpretation. It'd be interesting to see people's different interpretations and reasons.
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What are your ISP support experiences?
I just wanted to see what everyone else’s experience has been working with your ISP. I recently had a horrible experience and wanted to see if anyone else can relate and maybe just vent a little....
I just wanted to see what everyone else’s experience has been working with your ISP. I recently had a horrible experience and wanted to see if anyone else can relate and maybe just vent a little.
My recent experience: I moved to a new town, and I had been experiencing issues with my internet dropping out, as we all probably have had at some point, and I contacted Cox communications through their chat app. After multiple attempts to fix it, they finally sent a tech out to find that the coax connectors at the pole were rusted out. He replaced them but it wasn’t fixed completely. The tech dismissed it and said to just use it for now and I wouldn’t notice. So I did, and it wasn’t great at first, but it actually slowly got better and was good for a while until the last couple of weeks. This past week every single night it would drop out. I watched the connection drop while I was trying to watch mythic quest (great show btw) and every night for the past week the internet was unusable in the evenings. I then contacted Cox again multiple times, got a credit refunded back to my account and they wanted to do the whole reset modem thing again, so I did just to get to the next steps. Again they said use it and see if it improves, so I did, and it didn’t. I contacted them again, and again the modem reset, so I got fed up and filed a complaint with the FCC while I was chatting with this guy and he had the nerve to try and sell me home automation at the end of our chat!
The next day goes by, a woman from their escalation lines contacts me about my FCC complaint and they send a new tech out. Turns out Cox never buried my original line in conduit, so the line was probably damaged underground as it was sending a weak return signal. The tech ran a new drop from a different tap and used the thickest coax I’ve ever seen. So far it’s been good after the new drop, but it took multiple chats and calls with two different field technicians and an FCC complaint to get it fixed. The worst part about it is Cox Communications is the only broadband ISP in my area other than Starlink and I seriously considered Starlink. So if you read this far, thanks! Please share your experiences if you’d like, or if you want to vent that’s okay.
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The internet feeds on its own dying dreams
4 votes