> That's basically why I don't have a blog. A reason why I gave up on my own Internet presence entirely, including my own domains was that years ago when I got

> That's basically why I don't have a blog. A reason why I gave up on my own Internet presence entirely, including my own domains was that years ago when I got them I put a lot of effort into them - and got very little people to visit. Multimedia too, and I still think it was actually pretty nice (interactive learning content - I would not use multimedia for what could better be done with text, I love a minimalist approach). The problem was nobody even got there. I am not complaining! It was important to see what works and what doesn't. I now think it is far better to jointly contribute on a big project/website rather than piecemeal individually. Of course there will always be examples of people for whom it works, this is a "statistical" statement. Part of the reason I in particular got nowhere was the kind of content. Too many people trying to provide learning content, you can see it on Youtube, a lot of channels with sometimes great lectures started big for a few years but now have not been updated in years because the authors noticed the big gap between effort and reward (a few hundred viewers and a few comments). My conclusion was that I would instead go to sites like reddit (technical and science subreddits mostly) and HN, and if I really think it's worth writing up something larger there are plenty of sites to choose from. An important part of this is a conscious decision to give up creating my own brand. Instead, it was important for me personally to be perfectly okay, even to actually desire it, to disappear in the anonymity of the masses.