Maybe not any more, but it used to. Back in the day I used to spend a lot of time on places like /r/3dprinting and /r/raspberry_pi answering people’s questions. It felt fulfilling and I certainly was not the only one spending my evenings doing it. But that was years ago.
And nothing to do with Reddit making money by charging Google for API access to train its AI models.
Random Access Mushroom
Can I at least get some sleep please? Jeez… How many more fires I will have to put out this week?
Low bar of entry compared to everything else back in the day. Also quite fast being written in C. Then Laravel came around and it exploded in popularity. And of course you have WordPress that back in the day allowed everyone to get a site up and running. Not just blogs, due to the vast amount of plugins. There are more, butI think those are the biggest reasons.
Just spent my entire morning patching legacy servers running PHP 7.0 applications. Fun times.
Anubis is open source, self-hosted, doesn’t block me just because I use a VPN and the later versions work even with JavaScript disabled!
Fuck Cloudflare, long live Anubis!
Also cats.