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user-inactivated · 1580 days ago · link · · parent · post: God only started watching over us quite recently, according to a study that analyzed 414 societies from 30 world regions.

https://theconversation.com/big-gods-came-after-the-rise-of-civilisations-not-before-finds-study-using-huge-historical-database-113801

Is this the source article? Only cause I'm not a fan of Pocket.

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orbat · 1578 days ago · link ·

Why aren't you a fan of Pocket? I've only recently run into it and it seems like a neat aggregator, but I really don't have any sort of informed opinion about it

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user-inactivated · 1578 days ago · link ·

Like AMP and Instant Articles, it doesn't generate the same type of page views for the original article, affecting monetization and website income. Additionally, if you go to the actual website, instead of relying on these other services, you might stick around and read more after you finish the article, generating more page views and income.

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orbat · 1578 days ago · link ·

I just assumed they have some sort of syndication deal with their source sites that the sources feel covers the loss in income from not getting "direct" eyeballs

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user-inactivated · 1577 days ago · link ·

Man. I don't know if they have a syndication deal or not, I genuinely hope they do, because that'd make the practice at least a little bit better for content creators.