> It never was and never will be mainstream.

We had the time around when blogspot was a thing when everyone and their dog had a blog. It was mainstream enough for "Julie and Julia". It was a different time.

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simonw an hour ago | parent | next [-]

It's fun watching TV episodes from ~2005 to ~2015 and noting how common it was back then for a blog or blogger to be used as a plot point.

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averageRoyalty an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I would argue that most people who had a blog were 15-25 in that time. Yes it was very common in that demo, but outside of it, it was definitely not. I don't know if that classifies as "mainstream".

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tinkelenberg 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It was a great time. Social media’s reached beyond that though. Grandma wasn’t online back then.

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viraptor 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> Everyone and their mother wasn’t online back then.

Yes, but - there were lots of people who got online in other to blog. Livejournal, blogspot and others were the reason some of their mothers did get online. It was that mainstream!

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

It was good when we had social networking, and it got bad when that turned into social media.

The point should be connecting people to other people and their creativity, not just connecting people to content which may or may not be vomited out by generative AIs.

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bji9jhff 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

That grandma is dead. The online grandma is her daughter.

*You changed your post and now mine doesn't make sense anymore. I forgive you but don't do it again.

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tinkelenberg 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Fixed it for you.

	▲	bji9jhff an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Haha thanks ;)