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> "I'll never make anything again in my life that reaches 70M people" must take a while to sink in.

There's people that have turned single serving sites[0] into a sport and probably enjoy even wilder success than the stuck ship site. There's a tonne of sites like this here: https://www.reddit.com/r/InternetIsBeautiful/

It's not hard to get something going viral anyway. Just make the topic related to something recent in the news, cobble together some basic HTML, purchase a domain, then get 'influencer' type accounts on Twitter to retweet your link and ask a few journos to write an article about it and you're off.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-serving_site

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One does not simply "get 'influencer' type accounts on Twitter to retweet your link and ask a few journos to write an article about it". These people are all receiving tons of requests from everyone who is trying to promote anything. You're right that everything before that is super easy, but that part right there is the filter function.

That’s a bit “How to Draw an Owl”.

Can't view that reddit page without logging on or using their app. How ironic.

Are you on phone or pc. I could view it fine on phone and pc in browser without app and without an account. Not sure if familiar with reddit but definitely don't need account or app.

I'm on phone and very very familiar with reddit (as in: I enjoy it a bit too much for my own good) . When I visited the link I got the following message:

> To view posts in r/InternetIsBeautiful you must continue in Reddit app or log in.

These are per-subreddit rules I assume. Other subreddits works fine on phone without logging on.

Edit: Here is some thread about it: https://www.reddit.com/r/ModSupport/comments/epsv9m/apparent...

So it appears to be dependent on my location as well. Not my cup of "internet is beautiful".

It's weird that this "experiment" as the reddit admin called it is still going in over a year later. I wonder if the subreddit mods requested it or have no say in it or what.

I doubt subreddit mods _wanted_ this behavior. This is akin to "Sorry this site only works in Internet Explorer 5" in my view.

You would think that, but a year is a long time for an experiment to run. I suspect they could have asked reddit to move their experiment elsewhere at this point if they cared and it's actually an experiment still. Otherwise, it's not an experiment because there is no end, and it's just special behavior applied to one subreddit in perpetuity. You can still get data from that, but it's disingenuous to present it as an experiment (it could entirely be reddit being weird. I'd believe that as wel).

i could access it using old.reddit.com[0] or if you are on mobile reddit.premii.com[1] also seems to work.

[0]: https://old.reddit.com/r/InternetIsBeautiful/ [1]: https://reddit.premii.com/#/r/InternetIsBeautiful/

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