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This is awesome. Almost all content on the internet has been centralized by social networks, so it brings me joy to see an appetite for small, personal, non-com

This is awesome. Almost all content on the internet has been centralized by social networks, so it brings me joy to see an appetite for small, personal, non-commercial websites.

rchaud 3y ago
Eh, I've been on the hunt for non-commercial websites for close to a decade. It's pretty barren out there. Three types of people have websites these days: 1) People trying to sell something: courses, books, their resume, etc. 2) People interested in blogging, who give up after less than a year due to lack of visibility (compared to Medium/Substack) 3) People who created their website in the 90s and saw no reason to stop.
- chrismorgan 3y ago
  > 2) People interested in blogging, who give up after less than a year due to lack of visibility (compared to Medium/Substack) You don’t think most people that post to the likes of Medium or Substack also give up quickly?
  - JadeNB 3y ago
    > > 2) People interested in blogging, who give up after less than a year due to lack of visibility (compared to Medium/Substack) > You don’t think most people that post to the likes of Medium or Substack also give up quickly? I think the parent meant "lack of visibility compared to Medium/Substack", not "give up after less than a year compared to [longer viability on] Medium/Substack". (If you, in turn, meant implicitly just to say "read Medium/Substack", then I think that fails on the "small, personal" criteria, and possibly also on "non-commercial".)
    - chrismorgan 3y ago
      I read rchaud as saying “people that give up on blogging not long after starting because they’re not getting readers, whereas if they had posted on Medium/Substack they would get readers and would continue”, but I think that doesn’t reflect reality or the reasons people stop.
  - rchaud 3y ago
    I'm sure they do, but I'm not looking in those places. Setting up a personal website comes with a certain amount of friction compared to SS or M, which IMO iS a better signal for whether that person is serious about doing this.
- astroalex 3y ago
  I agree! Which is why I'm excited by an award promoting small personal websites. It's like an oasis in a barren desert of people trying to sell you things.

This is awesome. Almost all content on the internet has been centralized by social networks, so it brings me joy to see an appetite for small, personal, non-commercial websites.

rchaud 3y ago

Eh, I've been on the hunt for non-commercial websites for close to a decade. It's pretty barren out there. Three types of people have websites these days: 1) People trying to sell something: courses, books, their resume, etc. 2) People interested in blogging, who give up after less than a year due to lack of visibility (compared to Medium/Substack) 3) People who created their website in the 90s and saw no reason to stop.

chrismorgan 3y ago
> 2) People interested in blogging, who give up after less than a year due to lack of visibility (compared to Medium/Substack) You don’t think most people that post to the likes of Medium or Substack also give up quickly?
- JadeNB 3y ago
  > > 2) People interested in blogging, who give up after less than a year due to lack of visibility (compared to Medium/Substack) > You don’t think most people that post to the likes of Medium or Substack also give up quickly? I think the parent meant "lack of visibility compared to Medium/Substack", not "give up after less than a year compared to [longer viability on] Medium/Substack". (If you, in turn, meant implicitly just to say "read Medium/Substack", then I think that fails on the "small, personal" criteria, and possibly also on "non-commercial".)
  - chrismorgan 3y ago
    I read rchaud as saying “people that give up on blogging not long after starting because they’re not getting readers, whereas if they had posted on Medium/Substack they would get readers and would continue”, but I think that doesn’t reflect reality or the reasons people stop.
- rchaud 3y ago
  I'm sure they do, but I'm not looking in those places. Setting up a personal website comes with a certain amount of friction compared to SS or M, which IMO iS a better signal for whether that person is serious about doing this.
astroalex 3y ago
I agree! Which is why I'm excited by an award promoting small personal websites. It's like an oasis in a barren desert of people trying to sell you things.