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protocolture 29 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: RSS feeds send me more traffic than Google

>There's a ton of selection bias going on here.

The data doesnt purport to cover any more than the 1 website. Its not like there are any generalisations about other websites derived from the data. Its just "These are where my hits come from"

nofriend 28 days ago [–]

the only reason anyone would be interested in this result is because of the implication that it generalizes to other sites.

johanyc 28 days ago | | [–]

No. I knew it's data point for one website only and I'm still interested.

protocolture 28 days ago | | [–]

The only generalisation here is that one.

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