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Interpretive labor

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The promise of search: no need to navigate explicit ontologies. Google will crawl the internet for you. Simply type what you desire and the output will appear! Instantaneous luxury knowledge.

However, the best answers are found by prefixing a query with “reddit”. These small communities, subreddits, are specialists in their domain. They are the Encyclopedians of the internet, pulling together the relevant information into threads. Google is dead!

This Library of Babel can be deciphered, but only through local custodianship. A custodian, albeit self-interested, can establish “grassroots way-finding” in relationship with readers. They act below Dunbar’s threshold.

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