So for the one that still blogs. Are you anonymous, not anonymous but with a pseoudonyme or not anonymous at all?
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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Discussion groups and forums used to be useful, but now they're dying out and being replaced by undiscoverable walled garden facebook groups and discord servers...
And what's frustrating is that you can't even search those facebook groups (AFAIK).
By design I would suspect. Facebook is an informational black hole. Even the referrer links from there are useless.
Re: If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs (2020)
#243In the last few months, for some reason, my (completely unmaintained) LinkedIn has started to top search results for my name -- over my regularly updated personal website and blog (at lincolnquirk.com) when you search for my name on Google. The same has happened with a friend of mine whose blog is far more popular than mine. It's incredibly frustrating.
Why do you think that is? I'm thinking LinkedIn may be considered more authoritative or trustworthy than a personal blog. How is google to know that your blog is actually your blog? I've recently noticed more people writing on LinkedIn (which might just be my impression and not true) and I wonder if that's part of the reason?
I think that is part of a plan by LinkedIn to try to be more of a social platform
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We need a standard API to subscribe to blogs on other sites, that will appear on our blog feed as news feed -- like how facebook or tweeter feeds work. RSS is too personal, too much outside the flow.
I don't understand how RSS is too personal. An RSS feed of a blog is usually the same for all readers of the blog.
Maybe they mean that since there are many different feed readers a person could use, a blog can't have a "Click here to subscribe via RSS" link? Most feed readers will have a bookmarklet for 1-click subscribing, but the blog owner doesn't have the ability to make a prominent "call to action"-style button.
Re: If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs (2020)
#245Yeah 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…
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…
blog+microblog on your domain, and that automatically forwards the content to social platforms
Micro.blog does this!
Re: If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs (2020)
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The way to find good blogs is to start by asking technical questions in whatever subject you are interested in. If you want to read about barbeque, you need to start with a technical question about barbeque; if you want to read about Greek history, you need a question about that. Eventually you will find somebody knowledgeable who is writing about that subject. They will in turn link to others, or comment on others,…
Discussion groups and forums used to be useful, but now they're dying out and being replaced by undiscoverable walled garden facebook groups and discord servers...
This, pseudonymous de-centralized discussion groups and forums, is what I would pick as the one thing I would like to bring back to the internet. There used to be a forum about everything, each one it's own community, most of which didn't require ties to a real-world identity.
I'm sure they exist, but they are really hard to find.
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#247Working on launching a blog right now. The value prop is that it is guaranteed to make you smarter, each piece is a literary composition, and it is the best time and value for money you are likely to get that day.
What we do with language online now is what we used to do with code in the 80's. We're still in the shitty 8-bit game stage of public discourse, Twitter is internet Tetris. Like code, good writing isn't just what it represents, it's what it does.
Re: If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs (2020)
#248I'd bring back David Karp
Re: If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs (2020)
#249As a minor counterpoint: I've come to dread blogs and newsletters because so many of them are written by grind culture freaks who only write faux-insightful SEO'd content as a way to build an audience to sell snake oil to. These days the only blogs I trust are the ones I see on the top of HN or lobsters, which is unfortunate because I have interests beyond tech and I find it very, very difficult to find good blogs I…
The lack of central discovery is one of the main appeals of blogs imho. I don't want to discover blogs via a directory. I want to discover them through links from blogs I already read or recommendations from friends. I think blogs started dieing when they optimized for maximizing their audience instead of being locations where people write about stuff that interests them without an expectation of "making it".
Handmade directories, like blogrolls, are a sweet spot IME: I keep mine at https://maya.land/blogroll.opml (human or machine-readable) and I've found a huge portion of what's on it via other people's recommendations.
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Discovery of good sources of information such as blogs is hard. And I think the biggest problem is the lack of trust. Everyone wants to grab your attention [1]. So how do you know that others won't waste your attention? To solve this problem I am building https://linklonk.com that cultivates trust as you rate content. When you upvote a link you connect stronger to the feed that posted it (which could be a blog's feed…
We need a standard API to subscribe to blogs on other sites, that will appear on our blog feed as news feed -- like how facebook or tweeter feeds work. RSS is too personal, too much outside the flow.
RSS is too personal, too much outside the flow.
I have no idea about "too personal" mean, but the only reason you would consider RSS "outside of the flow" is due to the concerted effort by Google, Twitter, Facebook and Apple to reduce support. Even Mozilla(!) has been involved in removing support.
RSS is a perfectly good, tested and usable mechanism. Coming up with yet another syndication mechanism would be a huge waste of time and effort, most likely resulting in insignificance.