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Browsers dropped RSS support, Google killed Reader and social networks are easier to use.
What I never understood is: why did browsers drop RSS support?
Sites like Reddit also killed it. People would rather subscribe to topics (subreddits) than individual blogs.
Blog was, is, the easiest way to showcase your skills and capabilities.
I'm unable to count how many times total strangers suddenly contacted me and proposes collaboration, projects, job, etc
That's why after 23 years, I'm still blogging.
Musicians and audio freaks have a similar ritual lament on how music went to shit; electric killed the blues, digital murdered analogue, nobody knows how to mix/master any more... Amidst such an old-man's cloud-jeering session someone said to me "You know they make more vinyl than ever, and it's better than it's ever been". So I checked, and they were right. I bet there's more great blogs than there's ever been. Disc…
So many of those statements aren't really true. In no way is anyone "making more vinyl than ever". That's just absurd. Vinyl is currently seeing a resurgence as a collector item but is very very far from its peak unit sales in the 70s[0]. There's no really more blogs than ever either. There's a lot of content masquerading under the blog label trying to appear like organic grass roots content but it's really just cont…
On the problem of critical information existing inside the dishonest systems and companies who have an interest in distortion I previously wrote:
"With opportunities to fix our digital world from /within/ the system
vanishing, book publishing remains a bastion of open intelligence.
What you hold in your hands (or have as a non-DRM file) may soon be
one of the few remaining means to circulate critical opinions that
would quickly be censored online."
Can I rant for a sec please? Why do so many data sci/ML engineers use medium? It’s the biggest piece of shit blog platform on the face of the earth.
What do you consider to be the better blog platforms?
Google is (IMHO rightfully) giving the former a good position because it's a useful resource. However I don't think that the latter ranks at all for how-to-fix-specific-issue queries. At least, I never find other people's blogs when I look up my issues.
Google straight up stopped indexing and surfacing small personal websites. Marginalia searches highlight just how much is missing. An entire segment of the online world is as good as cut off. The most notable absentees are all the forums and the answers they contain. It's just reddit now.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
What do you consider to be the better blog platforms?
A platform which doesn't encourage me to subscribe with popups, or stop me from reading without logging in.
Can I rant for a sec please? Why do so many data sci/ML engineers use medium? It’s the biggest piece of shit blog platform on the face of the earth.