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> But with the revival of personal blogs well underway Is it? I haven't seen anyone in my circle return to blogging, nor kids of this generation. Discoverabil
by ricardobeat 11mo ago
> But with the revival of personal blogs well underway
Is it? I haven't seen anyone in my circle return to blogging, nor kids of this generation.
Discoverability is going to be a massive problem, since search engines are dead. Maybe word-of-mouth through social media is enough?
- minimaxir 11mo agoSocial media referral traffic is also dead, mostly due to algorithms that really don’t want users to click out of their websites. The only exception is Bluesky because it does not have algorithmic feeds, but technical content does not do well as most technical people did not migrate.
- gerdesj 11mo agoWe could always resurrect WAIS and Gopher. I sometimes compare Mediawiki vs SharePoint to Web x.0 vs WAIS n Gopher. One is light on resources, storing just the information with some formatting hints, leaving presentation to standards and the other is SharePoint. The comparison is really about bloat, not functionality, but the two are intertwined.
- throwaway5465 11mo agoSharePoint was, as I remember it, one big unnormalised table. Everything else was views on that.
- JonChesterfield 11mo agoThe content will be discovered just fine. It'll get embedded in the LLMs on the next round of training. Won't be attributed to your blog of course, but an approximation to the information will still get out there.
- bji9jhff 11mo agoKnowing mega corps will suck my blood thanklessly is of no solace.
- baconbrand 11mo agoThe way things are going, I’m not sure if the mega corps will ever truly turn a profit off the blood sucking. Maybe suck some USA tax money for a bailout… In the meantime, there are lots of actual humans trying to do things who will benefit from your knowledge being repackaged and delivered by the blood suckers.
- DrewADesign 11mo agoI honestly can’t wrap my head around people getting excited about companies ingesting their work to munge up and sell without compensation or any attribution. I’m sure the feeling is mutual, but I really don’t get it.
- wiether 11mo agoYou can also see it that way: big corps are funding the computing cost to ingest and propagate your ideas to millions of people, for free to you. The alternative would be to setup yourself a system that could serve those people.
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- B1FF_PSUVM 11mo ago> an approximation to the information Playing telephone has now been automated ...
- Larrikin 11mo agoWill an LLM purposefully change facts to incorrect information without fighting you the entire way? Seems like a blog platform could offer a feature where every posts has 3 or 4 factually wrong posts that would only be found by scrapers.
- AstroBen 11mo agoI had Gemini copy a bunch of text from a personal blog yesterday to answer a query so the content will definitely get read
- VP2262 11mo agoHere's a starting point https://peopleandblogs.com/ https://peopleandblogs.com/
- flpm 11mo agoThis looks very interesting, thanks for sharing
- dogline 11mo agoWe'll have to get the old (webrings)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webring https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webring] back in fashion.
- FrasiertheLion 11mo agoI would argue personal blogs are back and Substack is the medium of choice this time around
- ricardobeat 11mo agoSubstack to me seems to be 40% self-promotion or advertising a service, 40% long-form LinkedIn posts / AI slop, and the remaining 20% is behind a subscription with eventual freebies. Mostly professional writing. It’s far from being a new blogspot.
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- freddie_mercury 11mo agoI agree. Substack feels more like Op Ed writers realised they could make more money by self publishing than by staying at a dying media company with multiple levels of editorial oversight. To do well on Substack you need to publish pretty regularly, several times a week to keep and build an audience, and the only thing anyone can generate that fast are opinions. So Substack has really just become a decentralised Op Ed page.
- baconbrand 11mo agoDecentralized and expensive. Maybe I’m looking at the wrong blogs but my impression so far is that a lot of subscriptions are around 5-10$ monthly for a single creator. I can get a ton of newspapers (ok not papers, websites) magazines etc for that price or better, and those have way more than one contributor. The video platform Nebula for example has 175 creators for 6$/month. It does seem to work for a lot of people, though. Good for them.
- freddie_mercury 11mo agoThe minimum price is enforced by Substack, unfortunately. You can make everything free but you can't charge, say, $1/month. It definitely pushes the platform toward writers who think "I want to make this my full-time job & income". It also definitely suffers from, to a lesser extent, the Medium problem of way too many people thinking it is some kind of get-rich-quick thing. Somehow the Reddit algorithm started showing me the substack reddit, which seemed to mostly be pretty new authors complaining that they aren't making much money from Substack.
- jclarkcom 11mo agoI restarted my blog after a 20 year break (https://jonathanclark.com https://jonathanclark.com) thanks to AI making taking out the drudgery.
- stanmancan 11mo agoYou use AI to write your blog?
- jclarkcom 11mo agoyes, for example this article including charts and summaries were generated by AI. https://jonathanclark.com/posts/ai-coding-million-lines-2025.html https://jonathanclark.com/posts/ai-coding-million-lines-2025... Typically I act as an editor rather than a direct writer with cursor now replacing word
- soiltype 11mo agoI'm sorry to be harsh, but honest question - What's the purpose of using AI to create toy software that already exists (eg. YouTube downloader)? Normally the purpose would be to learn how to create that type of software, but that's presumably being skipped. Similarly... what's the point of blogging if you're not writing it yourself? This post is very long, but seems to basically just be riffing on the title over and over, at least by the 3rd graph. If you're not explaining anything and readers aren't receiving anything - what's it for? I really am asking with curiosity even though it's probably clear I have an opinion on this endeavor. There must be a reason you've paid money to do all this!
- raffael_de 11mo ago> nor kids of this generation. (I fear) the blog of this generation's kids is called TikTok or whatever and the form is video instead of text.
- ricardobeat 11mo agoTikTok is the exact opposite of blogging. It was about sharing bits of your daily life and personal thoughts and feelings, while building a small community. Having more than 50-100 readers was a major event (and not a thing people aimed for).
- raffael_de 11mo agoThat's exactly what TikTok is for ... to the T.
- carlosjobim 11mo agoAlmost right. The blog of this generation is called YouTube, and there's millions of such videos, with the author mostly talking. Why? YouTube pays creators, blogs don't.
- foodriver 11mo agoOT: " My hunger-self does feel so memories are as lucid made with others in hope " ...say, "People making a name of 'themselfes' for profit (boinboing IIRC), cos it has to be a (1994) profit ? And to say something, that: it is only "the complexity of big-tech-companys", in terms of content" ? Asking, cos i tryed... I do it for um... "politikum" (if that is the correct term) maybe while keeping to give someone an excuse to laugh about... ...try, but remember mostly after a day or two, maybe one week... often before i lost a (often needed) password or email-adress, i delete it. Did it for fun, get lost...than => doing something other... > //deviantart.com/journalseducatethink/gallery regards, ... PS: rewritten while listening to: > //youtu.be/dzw7u9KOOBM?t=66