I'm watching the podcast with Taylor and the Kelce brothers that dropped yesterday. Thirty five minutes into the podcast she tells us that she has been on a sourdough kick for the past six months. Both she and her boyfriend, Travis, have been baking bread. She said she is on a sourdough forum (don't know if she is on TFL). It's a fun part of the podcast!
My comment isn't about the sourdough, but about a celebrity being on a bread forum. Since I was inclined to say something uncomplimentary about TS and the bros, it made me think about the vast reach our comments have online. We tend to think we post in an isolated environment and nobody much pays attention, outside the forum community. Well, maybe we are invisible until one of our comments catches someone's attention.
AI often uses TFL as a source for answers to bread questions--so, there we are, hanging out for all the world to see. No problem, right, if we stick to bread?
I was on an obscure English forum which, by the time it folded, had six members. That's obscure. I posted a news story that happened in eastern Canada. An aspect of the story was of interest to the forum, but it was a story where a young woman died. I made a comment critical of the behaviour of the families after the accident. Imagine my shock when the dead woman's boyfriend responded on our little forum, chastizing me. He must have been searching the web for any mention of her name. It's a small internet world.
Didn't mean to make this post long. It's just a reminder that when we post anything, we are doing it from glass houses and anyone could be reading.
Every bread forum thinks that they're the one gifted with her presence! Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Sourdough/s/GwJ0D2oRyc