The phones part is a red herring here. Phones work fine for reading text.

Video outcompeting text as a mainstream medium for both information and entertainment is as old as television. Youtube would be a more reliable way to make money than a blog in 2026 even if it was primarily consumed on TVs or PCs.

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inigyou an hour ago | parent | next [-]

We did have that. What was Mythbusters if not a YouTube show?

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heavenlyblue 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Your post is a red herring, some platforms simply replaced bespoke blogging websites. How would I, without any special services, consume multiple blogs today? It's so much easier with instagram/social media.

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xp84 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> consume multiple blogs today? It's so much easier with instagram/social media

I beg to differ. Follow 12 “people” on Insta and you’re just telling the algorithm you’re into parent stuff, or fashion, or makeup, or cars, or attractive women, or attractive men. It’s not like even 50% of what they serve you will BE those 12 people you followed. Most of what you get will be related to the same niches, but it’ll be from randos and AI instead.

It’s nothing like how simple RSS, Google Reader, or even Flipboard in its original iteration, made it to follow a bunch of specific “creators.”

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AlienRobot 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

RSS.

	▲	realityfactchex 13 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Correct. It does not require a "service" to consume multiple blogs efficiently, just simply "software" (an app will do). The below RSS readers pretty much do their job and get out of the user's way. What's amazing is the sheer number of RSS readers that people choose to use; there are so many, people find ones that they personally like. On desktop: Vienna https://www.vienna-rss.com/ On iOS: R2SReader https://apps.apple.com/us/app/r2sreader/id1608635613 Of course, if one wanted to use a service (or run one oneself), for features like syncing, then that is possible too. But the basic setup remarkably simple, easy, and useful by itself IMO.

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coldtea 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

>The phones part is a red herring here. Phones work fine for reading text.

Not as "fine working" as a book or a magazine or even a PC - not with 10 other districtions available in the form of different apps (and sending notifications), and not with that small of a screen.

Is that really controversial?