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Re: Curated list of personal blogs

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I am afraid to blog. I could write about my career and my hobby, but those do not seem to be interesting for others. My opinion may be interesting, but it is risky because something I write may come back to offend others one day, or get me in trouble. One time ago I considered blogging anonymously about the economy but doing so anonymously felt disingenuous.

You can say anything you want, but only in the guise of anonymity (private). You can choose to reveal yourself, but then you cannot say anything substantially radical (public).

The more important thing that is happening isn't all the fuss about "cancel culture" or "free speech", it's that society is pushing towards the absolute division of the grey area between the public and the private, which is the area where politics actually take place. The real danger is that speech itself, in one mode entirely full of consequences and in another mode devoid of any, will become meaningless because of this distinction. What you say will no longer be related to what you actually do anymore, and speech will just be a floating signifier that no longer has any basis in reality and will lose the ability to change the world. The "freedom of speech" isn't the thing at stake, it's the value of speech itself that's being jeopardized.

Re: Curated list of personal blogs

#72
post #50

By any chance, could we add a "language" tag, so that blogs that are not in English can be added?

I'm empathetic with that sentiment (I mainly write in Japanese), but the HN-based scoring wouldn't work with the HN-based scoring. I'd rather have a separate list for each language, based on some other scoring say, # of tweets.

I'm not convinced of the interest of the hackernews score (it links too much blogs to tech), and I don't find that sharing articles on twitter is really relevant (people don't click on links on twitter, the information is held on the platform).

Re: Curated list of personal blogs

#73
I just wanted to say that today I hit the 2 month mark for consecutive days of writing. I published 60 posts, one every day. I wrote about startups, engineering, and other thoughts.

I've found that doing something daily is the best way for me to build habits. It's been a fantastic experience. My writing became more concise. It's given me clarity.

And great idea for the site- I submitted a pull request for my blog [0].

[0] https://matt-rickard.com/

Re: Curated list of personal blogs

#74
post #2

Hi, nowadays blogging is becoming less and less popular and people use twitter as their personal blog. This site is created to provide curated list of fine blogs, provided with their tags,feed links and hackernews page. The site is hosted on github and you can contribute to it if you want.

Twitter is becoming less relevant for personal stuff, it's mostly politics now. For personal things, people use Tiktok and youtube now.

Re: Curated list of personal blogs

#75
I love this. I'm in the ultrarunning community and I LOVE reading everyone's blog posts/trip reports/race reports/adventures. But everyone stopped updating them over the past 5 years or so. Now that sort of thing is just an Instagram photo with a paragraph or two. The depth and character of those old blog posts have been lost. I wish in depth blog posts would come back, but in reality, I don't think they are.

Side note: My other favorite types of websites are very specific human-curated lists... which also seem to have died out.

Re: Curated list of personal blogs

#77
post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interesting, I came to post the same thing. It's a shame, semi-permanent communication now represents an attack surface for randos hoping for their free-floating rage to find a surface upon which it might condense. In a sense, this provides little benefit to you except as an outlet and perhaps as a way to exercise writing skills, learning about a blogging platform, perhaps SEO (or not!), and so forth, but now the pos…

They make a lot of headlines, but you really have to say something extremely boneheaded for anyone to care about your opinions enough to do something about it. Stick to topics you're knowledgeable about (this is how you avoid saying boneheaded things), and generally stay positive and constructive, and you won't have any trouble. The fear you're feeling is wildly out of whack with reality.

Or you can be some random Mexican guy fired for making an OK sign with your hand, by accident.

Because that is now the white power sign. That's reality now.

Re: Curated list of personal blogs

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For folks interested in this space, there's a few other resources of which I'm a fan. First, there's Micro.blog ( https://micro.blog/ ). They can host a blog for you, or you can publish to their service for free using your own blog by pointing Micro.blog at your RSS feed (I do the latter). Think blogging but with a social element, facilitating both interaction and content discovery. Second, there's the IndieWeb movem…

Indieweb uses Slack? That's... confusing.

Re: Curated list of personal blogs

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think it’s similar to Feedly but I’m a fan of feedbin.com And for an iOS/Mac client I _highly_ recommend “Reeder”. [0] Have used both for years now. [0] https://reederapp.com

https://www.newsblur.com representin'

Looks v interesting but could do with a mobile friendly website!

Re: Curated list of personal blogs

#80
post #78

For folks interested in this space, there's a few other resources of which I'm a fan. First, there's Micro.blog ( https://micro.blog/ ). They can host a blog for you, or you can publish to their service for free using your own blog by pointing Micro.blog at your RSS feed (I do the latter). Think blogging but with a social element, facilitating both interaction and content discovery. Second, there's the IndieWeb movem…

Indieweb uses Slack? That's... confusing.

They use a bridge between IRC, Matrix, and Slack.
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