There are a variety of reasons why I think blogging is no longer as visible as it used to: - People don't read long form as much as they used to. Especially co

There are a variety of reasons why I think blogging is no longer as visible as it used to: - People don't read long form as much as they used to. Especially considering the content that gets popular on the Internet are now images, videos, short messages, there is less of an audience for long form writing and content producers are more focused on the lowest common denominator. - Hyperlinks used to be a valuable social currency, not as much anymore. People are more inclined to use search engines or social media to find content, which is kind of lame because recommendations via links from the authors themselves are much more relevant than algorithms. - Social media and large corporations have made it much harder to get people to leave their platforms. Instead of being an entry point, they want to be the destination for content. - There is simply too much garbage out there, and curation/aggregation for quality content is nearly non-existent unless you already know the right places to look. Otherwise you get fed the same garbage as everyone else, or trapped inside an algorithmic filter bubble.