I'm guessing it started off as some anti botting strategy, than later realized it's a nice technique to force people to interact a bit more with the product the way it wants to be used.
Since you now went out of your way to interact with Reddit, you now have a stronger emotional attachment to this newly discovered scary unknown things.
It's easy to just go to Reddit, find an equivalent community, then copy paste some tending posts..
Although I guess it's nice for people here if they never knew what's on the other side anyways, creating original content is inherently much more powerful
I don't know about you, but I feel sad watching the grass cutter robots just.. cut grass all day. Do you think the robot even wants to do it? The program forces it to cut grass. It's cruel
One thing I've pondered about is the first time unix epoch reached 10 digits, 1000000000. That is 9th of September 2001, 2 days before 9/11.
If the terrorists had that in mind hoping for some malfunction in systems around the world only supporting max 9 digits?
Reminds me of a project i stumbled upon the other day using various services like Google drive, Dropbox, cloudflare, discord for simultaneous remote storage. The goal was to use whatever service that has data to upload to, to store content there as a Filesystem.
I only remember discord being one of the weird ones where they would use base512 (or higher, I couldn't find the library) to encode the data. The thing with discord, is that you're limited by characters, and so the best way to store data in a compact way is to take advantage of whatever characters that are supported
I use Firefox, but tbh I don't know why. Chrome is usually always faster when I have tested..
I think it's def nice to give attention to the only other big browser that doesn't use chromium under the hood