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Concise reply: What happened to reading blogs for the hell of it, instead of doom-scrolling social media? Even one-two commenters a week can keep the spirit o
by DANmode 3y ago
Concise reply:
What happened to reading blogs for the hell of it, instead of doom-scrolling social media?
Even one-two commenters a week can keep the spirit of a blog up.
But usually not one per year.
- OfSanguineFire 3y agoI'm not sure about commentors being able to preserve the spirit. I'll be charitable and not name the blog, but I still RSS-follow one blog that is one of the oldest, most respectable, and once most-read in its subject area. It still gets comments regularly, but always by the same handful of people who are 1) obviously on the autistic spectrum, and 2) all getting on in years, because younger generations no longer follow blogs. The effect is sad, it makes the blogging feel even more declassé. In fact, its image would only improve by the owner turning off comments entirely and perhaps moving to a static site generator.