Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. A showerthought should offer a unique perspective on an ordinary part of life.

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Now that search engines suck, people will start to bookmark again. (lemmy.ca)

submitted 8 months ago by someguy3@lemmy.ca to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world

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[–] Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

For much of the internet, optimization used to mean improving usefulness and usability for end users. Now that we (as a society as well as individually) can't go without the internet anymore, optimization means improving usefulness for shareholders and/or advertisers, to the detriment of the user. This doesn't matter to them anymore though, since giving up on search engines, social media etc just isn't an option for users anymore.