Dang, that hurt to read. I'm starting up a new news-ish site like the old TheServerSide.com, at https://bytecode.news, and I'm faced with the question of "how do I generate traffic in the face of AI and all the people willing to market, market, astroturf, market, market?" I'm not that kind of personality, I don't want to do tiktok or whatever the kids do, I'd far rather accept organic and slow growth over meteoric and unsustainable and undeserved success, even if "organic and slow growth" means failure in the end.

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absoluteunit1 an hour ago | parent | next [-]

SEO, Reddit and Paid ads probably

	▲	jottinger 32 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I'm not going to optimize content for SEO - been on the other side of that, and I think it creates content that's bland and ineffective. Humans gonna human, machines gonna machine, and I'm not paying for ads. If humans want the site to succeed, it'll succeed. Otherwise, it won't. Such is life.

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sneak an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Choosing to fail means you shouldn't begin the project in the first place.

Correspondingly, if you are beginning the project, you should not make choices that will result in failure.

	▲	jottinger 33 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I don't think i'm "choosing to fail," I'm choosing to accept the outcome given an effort to prevent it. Sometimes you try and it doesn't work out; I'm not committing the mortgage to the site or the effort, and I'd like it to pan out because I think its progenitor had a raison d'etre, and I was part of it when it was good and I think there's room for it now. And if the moment's gone, well... that's the way it goes. That's not the same as "choosing to fail."