Kitthe main difference between ao3 and the rest of the internet is that ao3 actually wants you to find and read star trek fanfic from 1975, whereas every other site is determined to bury anything posted before last week
Dying Aloe Plant ✨️@inferiorwit Algorithms are the death of content longevity. Ao3 is an archive, meant to be searched like a database and thus is saved from the algorithmic hyper-focused targeted ad hell we find ourselves in.