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The open web is still growing. The perception that it's dying is just because proprietary services like Facebook and Twitter have dominated public discourse on
by simonh 5y ago
The open web is still growing. The perception that it's dying is just because proprietary services like Facebook and Twitter have dominated public discourse on the web, but it's still alive and well.
It's not growing as fast as it was, sure, but for example the number of active blogs has grown by 12% in the last 7 years and 4.4 million blog posts are published every day, more than ever before.
- kragen 5y agoThanks, that's reassuring. You mean 4.4 million blog posts that aren't posted only on Facebook and Twitter?
- theamk 5y agoNot original author, but probably yes. This page claims "70 million posts from wordpress users", which comes out to 2.3 million per day. And there are many more other blogging platforms out there. https://letter.ly/how-many-blog-posts-are-published-per-day/ https://letter.ly/how-many-blog-posts-are-published-per-day/ If you are interested in non-Facebook/Twitter I recommend getting an RSS client first. Then as you read Hacker News, add the feeds of the interesting authors to your reader -- many front-page articles have RSS links somewhere. You'll have nice, non-FB reading list in no time.
- kragen 5y agoSweet, thanks!
- simonh 5y agoMainly Wordpress and Tumblr apparently.