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MetaFilter began in 1999 as a sort of humane proto-Reddit. Why did a site for sharing best of the web links become a place where strangers help each other in real life in extraordinary ways? A profile by Stephen Thomas for Random House of Canada's Hazlitt.
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WE NEED TO GO DEEPER.
posted by spaceman_spiff at 6:01 PM on November 5, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by spaceman_spiff at 6:01 PM on November 5, 2014 [1 favorite]
MeFi Blue.
posted by glhaynes at 6:02 PM on November 5, 2014 [3 favorites]
posted by glhaynes at 6:02 PM on November 5, 2014 [3 favorites]
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