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> It never was and never will be mainstream. We had the time around when blogspot was a thing when everyone and their dog had a blog. It was mainstream enough
by viraptor 11mo ago
> It never was and never will be mainstream.
We had the time around when blogspot was a thing when everyone and their dog had a blog. It was mainstream enough for "Julie and Julia". It was a different time.
- tinkelenberg 11mo agoIt was a great time. Social media’s reached beyond that though. Grandma wasn’t online back then.
- bji9jhff 11mo agoThat grandma is dead. The online grandma is her daughter. *You changed your post and now mine doesn't make sense anymore. I forgive you but don't do it again.
- tinkelenberg 11mo agoFixed it for you.
- bji9jhff 11mo agoHaha thanks ;)
- munificent 11mo agoIt was good when we had social networking, and it got bad when that turned into social media. The point should be connecting people to other people and their creativity, not just connecting people to content which may or may not be vomited out by generative AIs.
- viraptor 11mo ago> Everyone and their mother wasn’t online back then. Yes, but - there were lots of people who got online in other to blog. Livejournal, blogspot and others were the reason some of their mothers did get online. It was that mainstream!
- simonw 11mo agoIt's fun watching TV episodes from ~2005 to ~2015 and noting how common it was back then for a blog or blogger to be used as a plot point.
- elcapitan 11mo agoProbably because writers love writers being a plot point ;)
- averageRoyalty 11mo agoI would argue that most people who had a blog were 15-25 in that time. Yes it was very common in that demo, but outside of it, it was definitely not. I don't know if that classifies as "mainstream".
- HeinzStuckeIt 11mo agoThe very active ecosystem of blogs I followed in the first decade of the new millennium, on arts themes (literature, cinema, non-popular music) and religious-denomination news, were mainly people above 30 blogging, sometimes much older. Wordpress had made it easy for any computer user, not just tech nerds, to set something up.
- viraptor 11mo agoThat and both mum blogs and early food blogs were definitely driven by older people.
- jdub 11mo agoHa, Julie and Julia is an excellent riposte. The previous poster might also consider all the high profile, independent, and influential publications across various subjects that grew out of blogging – e.g. HuffPo, Pitchfork, Jezebel, so many video gaming and entertainment sites... many of which were sadly bought up by rich idiots and/or existing media conglomerates.