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The issue with blogging is that now people are absolutely brutal about quality. I wouldn’t be comfortable sharing my understanding online on a blog, even if I’m an expert. I just know that what I write will be endlessly picked on, probably mocked in some cliquey discord channel
People out there are generally nice. People mostly don't care. And even if someone mocks your stuff in private - it says more about them than you.
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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 for "Julie and Julia". It was a different time.
It'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.
There are just not enough ways to discover personal blogs. HN is a great source, but you'll notice over time there are always AskHN posts asking something like "What is a site like HN for..", and people trying to build HN clones. Reddit was good for a while for this, but hasn't been for a long time. I'm hoping people rediscover/reinvent slashdot.
The ecosystem and interconnected-ness has completely vanished. If you look at the late 90s or early 2000s, people had RSS readers, and sites had feeds, blogrolls, trackbacks/pingbacks, a commenting system which worked, and social bookmarking sites (like del.icio.us) which were somewhat mainstream.
All of this is gone. Blogs are not going to survive in the current super-noisy consumption architecture.
For blogs to be back, you'd almost need a new internet.
Personal blogs are not "back". The article has zero evidence for this.
Ironically, Darren Rowse (the "problogger" person cited in the article) hasn't published a new blog post since 2024-07-24, more than a year ago.
AI scrapes niche blogs, Google deranks or spam drowns them out. It's really not a good time to be starting niche blogs.
The most depressing thing about AI these days is seeing people cite it as a reason NOT to create useful content! Feels very nihilistic.
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Yeah there could be better ways but I've found a handful of sites that are useful like https://indieblog.page/ . I actually wrote up a list of my favorite personal blog discoverability sites here: https://nelson.cloud/how-i-discover-new-blogs/
> A list of all sites indexed by Kagi Small Web is on GitHub: https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb/blob/main/smallweb.tx... As a Kagi customer I have to say that's a disappointingly short list and static approach :/