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I second the author that we need to host our own website and data, however finding an audience is really hard in post-Facebook world. Just ask any blogger who s

I second the author that we need to host our own website and data, however finding an audience is really hard in post-Facebook world. Just ask any blogger who saw the golden years of blogging (2008-2012). The Internet might be the same but the social media sites have changed the nature of the game. I feel our attention spans have decreased and the fallout of the Facebook privacy fiasco will definitely make it hard to consume new stuff. I'm not sure if decentralised solutions like Mastodon/Scuttlebutt/Diaspora etc will succeed, as I feel this is a human problem, not a technical one.

eitland 9y ago
> I second the author that we need to host our own website and data, however finding an audience is really hard in post-Facebook world. I think many of us wants even further back than the golden years of blogging: we want back to before "blogger" was a profession, back to when we put things on Internet to share and get feedback. IMO "Finding an audience" is something you need if you are going to milk advertisers.