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This happens with programming languages also. Lots of people cry "Perl is dead" because its market share is decreasing. But its absolute user count is increasin
by kqr 2y ago
This happens with programming languages also. Lots of people cry "Perl is dead" because its market share is decreasing. But its absolute user count is increasing!
It's not a competition for a limited size of pie; the pie is still growing at a frightening pace, along with all its pieces.
- OccamsMirror 2y agoAlthough there used to be a time you could be a "successful blogger" and make enough money from advertising that you could focus on it full time. Those days are long behind us.
- darkwater 2y agoThose days brought us to successful blogs/websites to be acquired by bigger corp and then enshittified. Moreover, what used to be a successful blogger is now a successful YouTuber, no? Because generally speaking, masses prefer to watch and listen to things rather then read.
- OccamsMirror 2y agoOr maybe a successful Substack author?
- bookofjoe 2y agoThere are a few, such as https://kottke.org/ https://kottke.org/ (started in 1998)