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My best guess as to what’s happened in the past 4-5 years is that fewer people are casually reading blogs or seeking out new ones
Great to see Matt be open about everything, and I think he’s dead right - but that time is changing and I think it’s time he got an ActivityPub blog!
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The true end goal should be that readers can get whatever they want wherever they want, regardless of what writers do and do not set up on various platforms.
There are some thoughts trying to from in my head about this but I don’t think simply cross posting is enough. There’s to much onus to check in and create accounts all over the place.
🔗 Into the Personal-Website-Verse
Now imagine, for a moment, an environment where a decentralized fabric of connected personal sites allows everyone to publish their own content but also enables each individual to engage in an open discussion – answering, challenging, and acknowledging the ideas of others through this universe of personal sites.
🔗 The Algorithmic Diet for Your Mind
I’ve been there, stuffing YouTube junk food into my brain and actual junk food into my mouth at 1 AM, watching some idiot react to another idiot’s reaction to more idiots. And that’s fine, sometimes.
🔗 Shot on iPhone Controversy | Chris Hannah
To think that using an iPhone to film a video suddenly mean a camera dolly isn’t needed, or that an iPhone torch can replace flood lights, is pretty stupid.
This guy gets it!
🔗 Oh God, It’s Raining Newsletters — by Craig Mod
social networks seem more and more to say: You don’t know what you want, but we do.