Pre-2001, we had webrings, and thus people got plenty of traffic; anyone becoming successful meant others became successful. That's the golden age people refer

Pre-2001, we had webrings, and thus people got plenty of traffic; anyone becoming successful meant others became successful. That's the golden age people refer to. In terms of reasonable conversations, prior to the internet going truly mainstream and people wandering around with access to the internet 24/7, most relatively niche sites that had interactive elements ended up attracting very specific demographics, of which you would likely have plenty in common with. The stats on Tumblr, and number of sites running on top of WordPress begs to differ in regards to blogging not seeing a revival. This doesn't even take into consideration Tumblr adding ActivityPub, nor WordPress being able to add it with a simple plugin.