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Re: Hacker News but for independent blogs

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Post by jl6 »

flir wrote: post #68
jl6 wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is blogging always like that? Always has been.

From memory, there was a long tail of blogs like that way back when, but a core of solid, interesting content. I have an expectation that an aggregator would bubble the interesting stuff up, and the self-referential stuff down. But maybe this is just content the audience finds interesting.

There is still solid and interesting content, it’s just that the material is so diverse that attention is spread thinly. Meanwhile, blogging is the one thing bloggers definitely have in common, so the attention is more concentrated.

It’s a failing of aggregators that they optimize for attention concentration rather than interestingness. But is there even such a thing, objectively?

Re: Hacker News but for independent blogs

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Post by easterncalculus »

bad_username wrote: post #154

Open... "the girly wellness aesthetic as a white supremacist dog whistle" Close... guess I will stick to HN

Exactly what I thought.

The beginning of the end of the free and open internet was the rise of the walled garden. The final nail in the coffin is that every search result for "independent blogs" and "free and open internet" these days goes to politically challenged morons like this.

Simply put, the people running their own websites and blogs aren't "normal" anymore. The "normal" people are on the big platforms, unfortunately.

Re: Hacker News but for independent blogs

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Post by altairprime »

mmarian wrote: post #152

I'd love to see something like this but a bit more business-y, although not big tech business, neither just indie hacking promos. Maybe I'm too picky...

There aren't many business-y people with public blogs that aren't just PR outlets for, if not outright hosted by, their business. They do exist but it's a very quantity-limiting criteria, as (unlike the general population) success in business tends to be accompanied by wariness of speaking openly in publicly-indexed venues such as blogs. No shame in having a picky preference! But worth keeping in mind. (ps. You might appreciate the Scope of Work slack!)

Re: Hacker News but for independent blogs

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Post by altairprime »

eduction wrote: post #97

The title is wrong as they are not just different in sourcing but topic. A better title would be "Hacker News but for general content from independent blogs." Hacker News but for independent blogs would be the same topic as HN but only stuff from independent blogs. This is avowedly broad: "Hacker News and Lobste.rs have community voting figured out, but non-tech content gets drowned by the tech majority" https://bubb…

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