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What Twitter and others solved with micro-blogging was discovery. There was nothing wrong with personal blogs. Sure, they had a bit more setup than just signing
by gigatexal 4y ago
What Twitter and others solved with micro-blogging was discovery. There was nothing wrong with personal blogs. Sure, they had a bit more setup than just signing up for Twitter and typing out some 140-word screed but they were perfectly capable. Blogspot and others made it free, you needn't even have a domain and yet people still went to Twitter to build their "brand" (I hate that phrase) and get "discovered" and then get the sales funnel going to send "fans" (also gross) to their paid newsletters, podcasts, books, etc., all of it facilitated by the algorithm and Twitter.
- CodexArcana 4y agoSome kind of discovery protocol for blogs RSS feeds would be nice. Maybe BlueSky will fill that void. There probably are services already doing something like that, but it still puts a central authority in control of the discovery.
- gigatexal 4y agoYeah … RSS will likely play a huge role and for mass adoption or a large number of eyes it’ll need to be a centralized thing but then you get all the problems of centralization including the ability to say what can and can’t be part of the new discoverability index.