Is Self Hosted Blogging Dead?

Re:Is Self Hosted Blogging Dead? by rglover on Thursday January 21, 2016 @11:09PM (#10950703)

I've been wondering this, too, and design/ease-of-use aside, the biggest argument I've heard (and observed) is the network effect. Even trivial Medium posts get at least a handful of favorites and 1-2 comments. A built-in audience is likely an easy sell for the majority of folks.

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Re:Is Self Hosted Blogging Dead? by dberg on Thursday January 21, 2016 @11:14PM (#10950716)

I guess that makes sense, but there are certainly other platforms with an "audience", like Tumblr, etc?

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Re:Is Self Hosted Blogging Dead? by volaski on Friday January 22, 2016 @12:10AM (#10950885)

Medium started out with Twitter sign in, which means their early users were all Twitter "influencers". The way I look at it, it's a blogging wrapper layer built around Twitter social graph. When you sign in with your Twitter account you automatically follow everyone you follow on Twitter on Medium.

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