If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs

Re:If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would ... by christiansakai on Saturday May 16, 2020 @02:56PM (#23206134)

I’m curious. Have any company or anyone implemented something like this? Basically let people blog and let author themselves pay (instead of being paid by ads) subscription fee to pay cloud machine that hosts their content.

I think something does exist in Ethereum platform but why it doesn’t exist out there anywhere else.

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Re:If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would ... by Nextgrid on Saturday May 16, 2020 @03:09PM (#23206267)

I recently checked out Write.as and it fits the bill. It’s a paid blogging platform (the backend is open source so you can self-host).

Svbtle is also good if you don’t mind mandatory Google Analytics that you can’t disable (I left the platform because of that).

Squarespace can also be used as a blog although it’s more general-purpose than just blogging and a bit more expensive as a result.

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Re:If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would ... by sjf on Saturday May 16, 2020 @03:19PM (#23206382)

This was the model back in the 2000s before monetization was big on the internet. This is really the key issue, not whether RSS feeds or dead or if it is too hard for people to self-host blogs.

The internet has changed a lot in the last ten years. People have realized that popular content has a big monetary potential, and it is far easier now to get compensated (remember when YouTube content creators couldn't monetize?). More content is created as a income source, than out of passion or interest. Search results are gamed by commerical blogs. The average hobby blogger can't compete with that.

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Re:If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would ... by DarrenDev on Saturday May 16, 2020 @03:12PM (#23206308)

Wordpress.com is exactly this. But it's not new and trendy.

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Re:If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would ... by alisonatwork on Saturday May 16, 2020 @03:16PM (#23206346)

LiveJournal has worked this way for decades and still exists.

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Re:If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would ... by skyfaller on Saturday May 16, 2020 @10:02PM (#23208838)

Dreamwidth is the spiritual successor. https://www.dreamwidth.org/

LiveJournal went closed source in 2014. It was also bought by Russians, relocated its servers to Russia, and began enforcing Russian law in 2017, which included laws against "gay propaganda", which was when me and my remaining friends abandoned the service for good.

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Re:If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would ... by dsr_ on Saturday May 16, 2020 @04:55PM (#23207143)

And DreamWidth.org does LJ better in every way.

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Re:If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would ... by dotmanish on Saturday May 16, 2020 @03:06PM (#23206236)

Letting authors pay for hosting/infra is what commercial plans for WordPress.com do.

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Re:If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would ... by marpstar on Saturday May 16, 2020 @03:06PM (#23206239)

Ghost.org offers hosting

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