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ricardobeat 3 hours ago

> But with the revival of personal blogs well underway

Is it? I haven't seen anyone in my circle return to blogging, nor kids of this generation.

Discoverability is going to be a massive problem, since search engines are dead. Maybe word-of-mouth through social media is enough?

minimaxir 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Social media referral traffic is also dead, mostly due to algorithms that really don’t want users to click out of their websites.

The only exception is Bluesky because it does not have algorithmic feeds, but technical content does not do well as most technical people did not migrate.

dogline 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

We'll have to get the old (webrings)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webring] back in fashion.

VP2262 an hour ago | parent [-]

There's some here https://indieweb.org/webring

JonChesterfield 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The content will be discovered just fine. It'll get embedded in the LLMs on the next round of training. Won't be attributed to your blog of course, but an approximation to the information will still get out there.

bji9jhff 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Knowing mega corps will suck my blood thanklessly is of no solace.

B1FF_PSUVM an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

> an approximation to the information

Playing telephone has now been automated ...

FrasiertheLion 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I would argue personal blogs are back and Substack is the medium of choice this time around

ricardobeat an hour ago | parent [-]

Substack to me seems to be 40% self-promotion or advertising a service, 40% long-form LinkedIn posts / AI slop, and the remaining 20% is behind a subscription with eventual freebies. Mostly professional writing. It’s far from being a new blogspot.

CompoundEyes 2 minutes ago | parent [-]

Also 100% guarantee of a pop up asking to subscribe the moment you scroll.

gerdesj 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

We could always resurrect WAIS and Gopher.

I sometimes compare Mediawiki vs SharePoint to Web x.0 vs WAIS n Gopher.

One is light on resources, storing just the information with some formatting hints, leaving presentation to standards and the other is SharePoint. The comparison is really about bloat, not functionality, but the two are intertwined.

throwaway5465 2 hours ago | parent [-]

SharePoint was, as I remember it, one big unnormalised table. Everything else was views on that.

VP2262 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Here's a starting point https://peopleandblogs.com/

AstroBen 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I had Gemini copy a bunch of text from a personal blog yesterday to answer a query so the content will definitely get read