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Ohh boy, right here why blogs might not be best suited for this hyper-connected global world we live in... HN Hug of death is real I guess
There is just a problem with self curated content in general. There used to be a lot of experts making their own sites with information that was never available before. It was easy to just upload some HTML files somewhere. Now this information is being put in inaccessible areas like Facebook Groups. Then people tried running their own sites with wordpress and stuff but that becomes hard as you are usually on a crappy…
Yet, I don't think most people are going to want to go this route and it would take a fair amount of tooling to automate everything. It's not sufficient to just abstract away the cloud provider, people also need tools for creating and managing content. In theory you could run such tools locally, but I think most people would expect a web interface similar to that provided by Wordpress and medium.
Further, there's a big difference between free and essentially zero cost. How many people are going to be motivated to pull out their credit card to create blog when free alternatives already exist? Not only are existing blogging sites free, but they also promise the opportunity to actually make money through their affiliate program if the site becomes popular.
We should be able to dial up folks' computers directly and look inside their /public or /www folder.
Blogs are still there, just not easily findable through Google as most of the ones you find are low-value SEO blogs aiming at search engine traffic. Discovery is a problem but I just subscribe to blogs when I find them via RSS (Blogs still have RSS, it's hard to find one without which is surprising but I'm glad that's the case), over time I build up my list of blogs I like and they usually link to other blogs and the…
The open web has had a great run but it too is being brought to its knees by spam just like every other open platform.
They allow for manipulation of the new commons and the societies of the people therein.
The manipulation existed before, but not in such an effective way.
US army in Eglin, various Russian bot farms, and effective private firms are open to deep-pocketed millionaires.
There must be a way that's /less/ open to manipulation. Or at least a way that openly expresses this happens.
As the world comes even more digital, the bigger risks this manipulation has on society.
Blogs are still there, just not easily findable through Google as most of the ones you find are low-value SEO blogs aiming at search engine traffic. Discovery is a problem but I just subscribe to blogs when I find them via RSS (Blogs still have RSS, it's hard to find one without which is surprising but I'm glad that's the case), over time I build up my list of blogs I like and they usually link to other blogs and the…
With such a dominant market share, search has certainly lowered in quality
I blog on Facebook and it works really well for me because I have a built in audience that is interested in what I have to say. I can tell stories about my life that my kids and parents enjoy. I have no need for NSFW posts. I avoid politics. I keep it fun and interesting. Hot takes on local issues sometimes. I have 60 followers who I don't know and don't understand why they follow me, although I do try to explain the…
That is not a blog.
You don't have control over it, you don't have archives, and it's not world readable.
None of what you listed is a reason to not to use a real blog.