I find blogging to be a step further than screaming into my mic daily and transcribing it. At least I can formulate it a bit better when I type.
Blogging in 2025: Screaming into the Void
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#42> So if you have a blog nowadays with all kinds of useful information ... how many people are really going to read it directly?
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> If the answer was on a forum, blog or any other website the AI will fetch it behind the scenes and summarize it for you.
Because of exactly this(AI stealing people's traffic and exposure, becoming de facto gateway into the internet and keeping the real users away from actual content creators, controlling the narrative or getting paid for other people's work), I have become convinced that in order to preserve humanity and freedom on the internet and avoid being totally controlled by social networks and these AI information manipulators, there is great need to paywall all content. It is horribly sad that it came to this, because internet was not made to become like this, but I see no other way to preserve its essence. One of the reasons I have created Gethly.com was because paywalls will become necessity.
In the past, search engines were helpful because they guided users to your content and for that functionality, they got paid money from showing some ads on their own search result page. But with AI bots, they are literally stealing all the information out there, all the traffic the websites would otherwise generate, and are stealing people's money because these AI bots/agents have paid versions, which only turns their theft into profitable crime. These AI tools bring no value to the content creators whose content they are stealing and preventing real users from discovering and connecting with the authors. Only their users see value in them as it allows them to avoid doing the manual work of searching the information themselves. But this comfort comes at an astronomical cost because in time, this will completely kill content itself as people will stop creating it due to lack of traffic and interest from real users when AI bots will come in once, steal the content and then sell it to the end-users for ever and the content creators will not get one more page hit.
These are dark times, people just don't get it yet how bad thins will get.
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#43Like many here, I too blog for the mental exercise of composing, the human desire to express, and a faith that posting to the public web is some how intrinsically worthy. On the first point I've found I get a lot of benefit from the posts I never even publish as I'll keep chewing over subjects which I'm mentally composing a post about and gain a lot of personal clarity in the process. One thing I've wondered though (…
> Here's a thought experiment: Would you feel good if someone read your blog and learned something from it? Probably yes. Would you feel good if they passed along something they learned to others, likely in their own words? Probably yes. What if they couldn't recall, or didn't choose to reference where they saw it? Probably still yes, although (speaking personally) my ego would probably prefer they did credit. What if the reader who passed the learning along was the ai?
This is definitely an interesting way of looking at it. If your blog ends up in pre-training data, it will become part of the AI. Or if not, an AI might still fetch it when a user asks something specific. It reminds me of voting in a democracy, which many people consider a right and a duty - but in reality a single vote is hardly going to swing any election.
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#44Their photos are worth reposting for the few who won't read past the first paragraph. This is cool. https://mijnrealiteit.nl/
I like this a lot, simple, elegant, unpretentious, walking down memory lane.
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#45Like many here, I too blog for the mental exercise of composing, the human desire to express, and a faith that posting to the public web is some how intrinsically worthy. On the first point I've found I get a lot of benefit from the posts I never even publish as I'll keep chewing over subjects which I'm mentally composing a post about and gain a lot of personal clarity in the process. One thing I've wondered though (…
> Here's a thought experiment: Would you feel good if someone read your blog and learned something from it? Probably yes. Would you feel good if they passed along something they learned to others, likely in their own words? Probably yes. What if they couldn't recall, or didn't choose to reference where they saw it? Probably still yes, although (speaking personally) my ego would probably prefer they did credit. What i…
that's a good analogy
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#46In the past, you also used to ping a bunch of search engines (eg Technorati) for each new post. Going forward, you should be able to ping AIs but there should be a paywall before they can train on your content. Also, how are AIs going to train for new languages and business rules in the future? People may start to get defensive. It must be worth something.. enter x402. AIs are dumb - they can't really make sense of a…
Here's a runaway feedback loop: if you put your blog behind a paywall for AIs, there's an army of spammers, narcissists, and marketers who would be more that happy to substitute for you in the training set for free. Commodification leads to a race to the bottom.
And if that puts a nail in the coffin of LLMs then I'm all for it.
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#47I was about to subscribe to the RSS feed, but there wasn't one. Pared down a bit too far!
(RSS feed is how you -used to- follow blogs you thought were interesting)
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#48Yes, the distribution is super hard. I recently changed how I blog and building entire platform around that called LakyAI (https://lakyai.com). The idea is being able to run multiple blogs in parallel with crosslinking, sharing resources, reposting to platforms that give you distribution, repurposing the blogs entirely, and more. I am at the beginning but if someone is interested in some novel ideas just drop me an email at hello@lakyai.com.
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#49>how many people are really going to read it directly
For me probably very few if any :) It does not help I moved to my site Gemini (the real gemini, not google's thing) a year or 2 ago. Not that I blog much anyway.
But I hope some future digital archeologist may find our blogs and get a view into what non-corporate controlled people thought :)
Note, I find Gemini and Gopher far easier to maintain then anything on the WEB. FWIW, I mirror my items on gopher.
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#50I too have been throwing messages in bottles into a silent sea for a pretty long time, but I think I'm okay with that. It doesn't help if you also have difficulty adhering to quintessential blog SEO best practices. 1. Consistent theme - A diverse set of interests and a lethal dose of ADD make this virtually impossible 2. Consistent updates - My articles tend to be rather unusual, and I'll often combine them with cust…
Wow, thanks for link to Paged Out. Any ideas how to discover any more tech focused zines? We have a zine culture in UK but afaik it’s more culture / music focused (v happy to be wrong here)
From yesterday's PO! thread [1] [2]:
- https://lainzine.org/archive
- https://inteltechniques.com/magazine.html
- https://increment.com/issues/
Not all of them are active though.