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Re: Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?

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Post by viraptor »

tinkelenberg wrote: post #27
viraptor wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

It was a great time. Social media’s reached beyond that though. Grandma wasn’t online back then.

> 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!

Re: Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?

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Post by tinkelenberg »

bji9jhff wrote: post #29
tinkelenberg wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It was a great time. Social media’s reached beyond that though. Grandma wasn’t online back then.

That 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.

Fixed it for you.

Re: Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?

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Post by guestbest »

tinkelenberg wrote: post #22

Every blog is a niche blog because blogging is a niche. It never was and never will be mainstream. Social media began as an attempt to make the spirit of blogging a low lift for the noobs. Today, you’re talking to an audience that is online, willing to venture outside social media, and opting to actively read content rather than passively listen or watch. That’s far from everyone and that’s okay.

Heh, when you started talking about venturing outside I thought you were going to talk about in real life meat space.phones and tablets really freed us up but we still don’t leave our house to go on the internet for discussions. Funny with all that freedom the untethered life gets us.

Re: Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?

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Post by bji9jhff »

JonChesterfield wrote: post #18
ricardobeat wrote: post #2

> 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?

The 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.

Knowing mega corps will suck my blood thanklessly is of no solace.

Re: Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?

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Post by FrasiertheLion »

ricardobeat wrote: post #2

> 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?

I would argue personal blogs are back and Substack is the medium of choice this time around

Re: Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?

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Post by VP2262 »

dogline wrote: post #24
ricardobeat wrote: post #2

> 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?

We'll have to get the old (webrings)[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webring ] back in fashion.

There's some here https://indieweb.org/webring

Re: Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?

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Post by [deleted] »

guestbest wrote: post #33
tinkelenberg wrote: post #22

Every blog is a niche blog because blogging is a niche. It never was and never will be mainstream. Social media began as an attempt to make the spirit of blogging a low lift for the noobs. Today, you’re talking to an audience that is online, willing to venture outside social media, and opting to actively read content rather than passively listen or watch. That’s far from everyone and that’s okay.

Heh, when you started talking about venturing outside I thought you were going to talk about in real life meat space.phones and tablets really freed us up but we still don’t leave our house to go on the internet for discussions. Funny with all that freedom the untethered life gets us.

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Re: Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?

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Post by speff »

doublerabbit wrote: post #19
interroboink wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, there quite a few. Like old-school phpBB is still around[1]. Or, take a look at the list on Wikipedia[2]. Not sure if you're looking for a hosted solution, though. A lot of those would involve you running your own server. [1] https://www.phpbb.com/ [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Internet_forum_s...

How I miss my script kiddie days of being 15, downloading "nulled" versions of vBulletin off of Limewire and throwing them up on pocket money paid cPanel web hosting account waiting for it to upload on my parents 56K. Exploit ridden PHPNuke & e107 CMS too.

We had similar childhoods - though I did phpBB. Never had an audience for the forum, but it was cool just having and styling it. Good times.

Re: Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?

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Post by bji9jhff »

tinkelenberg wrote: post #32
bji9jhff wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That 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.

Fixed it for you.

Haha thanks ;)

Re: Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?

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Post by emschwartz »

If you’re looking to put one up, try https://bearblog.dev (no connection, just appreciate Herman’s work).

It’s got just the features you need, is built by a solo dev, and it’s got a very fair split between free and paid features. I used it to put up my personal site and have been very happy with the experience.

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