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If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs (2020)

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Re: If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs (2020)

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Post by handrous »

veidr wrote: post #99
BiteCode_dev wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, I think is a need for some platform that provides blog+microblog on your domain, and that automatically forwards the content to social platforms so that you get the best of both worlds: 1 - owning your blog is too big of a barrier of entry, there is a need for a platform: look at the success at medium for tech writers, despite that we hate it. 2 - we need the return of the domain name based blog. This helps with…

I do think the ability to do phone calls is waning, though. I've made 4 phone calls this year: to a buddy, to my wife, to an old friend, and to my fax/voicemail provider (JConnect) which decided to terminate voicemail service on the phone number I've used since the 1990s. (So I may be part of the problem I am describing — that number didn't ring any device, it only accepted voice messages and faxes, which it forwarde…

Spam's ruined phone calls, like it ruined email. No coincidence those are the two worst ways to reach me. Email's almost exclusively for receiving messages that I'm expecting from machines, now (password reset, order confirmation, whatever). It's not even any good for unexpected notices from machines, let alone communication with humans. Sure, I could migrate to another address and it'd be more usable for a while, or I could spend a Saturday crafting rules to fix my inbox, but why bother? 99% of what I care about comes in via WhatsApp or (less often) text.

[EDIT] Except for work. My work email is still sorta useful. But in part that's because it's much newer. It's also getting more and more junked up with garbage, without active management and rule-setting.

Re: If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs (2020)

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Post by fsckboy »

slightwinder wrote: post #68
veidr wrote: post #25

Yeah blogs are still here, BUT: (like email ( sob ) and telephone-calling (hooray)) a lot of people that once did blog don't anymore. Not in the "I had kids so my blog went dark for a few years" sense, but in the sense of "ooh twitter was invented and now I just emit a halfassed one-sentence brainfart or 5-second tiktok cellphone video and get way more dopamine hits". I've been reading blogs and perusing my self-cura…

> Not in the "I had kids so my blog went dark for a few years" sense, but in the sense of "ooh twitter was invented and now I just emit a halfassed one-sentence brainfart or 5-second tiktok cellphone video and get way more dopamine hits". Most blog-entries were never much more than that anyway, especially since the free blog-services started appearing and setting up a blog was effortless. There is a reason why Twitte…

> now I just emit a halfassed one-sentence brainfart

or worse, a 10/ sequential message "magnum tweetus"

Re: If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs (2020)

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Post by BiteCode_dev »

BlueTemplar wrote: post #208
BiteCode_dev wrote: post #155

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> your audience still comments on social media and so your discussion remains there. Discussion should remain on social media. This avoids the problems of moderation and spam that plagued blogs. > it is far too simple to just use social media directly Yes to succeed the blog platform should be super easy to setup and to link. There are benefits that can then attract people: - if you have several social accounts, on t…

> but on your blog, you can do whatever you want Not if it's on a platform - see part 2 of GP's ramblings.

With your own domain name and branding, maybe we can play a different game provided the platform is willing to forward complaints to the user and step back.

After all, I'm responsible for my vps content, not my hosting. What's the difference ?

Re: If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs (2020)

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Post by orhmeh09 »

giansegato wrote: post #26
vlkr wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think many (personal) blogs were killed by social media. You don't blog about your last weekend anymore, you just post some pictures on instagram or in your whatsapp groups.

Which means - whether we like it or no - that social media were and are superior products when it comes to this specific use case, otherwise people won't be using it.

Only if you think within the structures of a particular ideology based on the notions that people are rational actors and that the market produces the most effective solutions for any given use case.

Re: If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs (2020)

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Post by wolpoli »

> Now it says there are 40,000 but you only get 10 or 20 pages of results you can get to, all basically corporate and lame.

This is a very serious issue with search engines today. Search engines falsely claim millions of matches, and not only does it do nothing to help us narrow down the millions by grouping or suggest additional keywords, but we can't actually get to the results. Do these results even exist? Are search engines basically precomputing results for keywords and it can't go outside of them anymore?

Re: If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs (2020)

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Post by design-of-homes »

I started writing a blog in 2007 and continued writing fairly regularly until 2013. The subject of my blog: the design of high density housing. I am not an architect, but I developed a passion for the subject and wrote blog posts based on the books, papers and news I consumed.

Why did I stop? Simply because hardly anyone was reading the blog!

At first, I convinced myself I was writing for myself and an audience was not important. But over time, I came to realise that, although the size of the audience was not important to me, the interest and engagement of readers did matter (especially for a blog with a very niche topic). Hardly any readers commented on my blog posts (which was important to me).

Today, there are lots of corporate blogs writing about their products, and there are single author bloggers trying to establish their "personal brand" - whatever that means! The writing style is often inflated, formal, corporate-sounding: in short, simply bland. What rarely comes across is the unique voice of the writer. And that's a shame.

Re: If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs (2020)

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Post by JacksonGariety »

solarengineer wrote: post #7

How do you all discover blogs? I used to discover blogs via the Yahoo Directory, blog rolls (where we mention others' blogs as external links to follow up), Live Journal's listing, and cross-referencing of blog posts. Google search used to surface blog posts too. Now it's all on Medium - where I don't grudge those who want reliable hosting+discoverability and want to get paid for content, and where Medium charges for…

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