If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs (2020)

Re:If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would ... by adrianN on Monday September 20, 2021 @08:33AM (#28593114)

The lack of central discovery is one of the main appeals of blogs imho. I don't want to discover blogs via a directory. I want to discover them through links from blogs I already read or recommendations from friends.

I think blogs started dieing when they optimized for maximizing their audience instead of being locations where people write about stuff that interests them without an expectation of "making it".

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Re:If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would ... by kixiQu on Monday September 20, 2021 @01:24PM (#28596272)

Handmade directories, like blogrolls, are a sweet spot IME: I keep mine at https://maya.land/blogroll.opml (human or machine-readable) and I've found a huge portion of what's on it via other people's recommendations.

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Re:If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would ... by sweuder on Monday September 20, 2021 @07:40PM (#28600423)

And now I'm perusing your recommendations, cheers!

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Re:If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would ... by kixiQu on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @03:36PM (#28608947)

My whole site was inspired by https://marijn.uk/linkroll/ and https://href.cool/ , so while not everything they link to has an associated feed, I gotta shout them out as worth a look. :)

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Re:If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would ... by eddieroger on Monday September 20, 2021 @09:57AM (#28593820)

I actually think I would like a directory, because I fear the link-only propagation method would lead to echo chambers. But then how do you have a trustworthy directory, and how does it not also become an echo chamber. Reddit could almost be that, but clearly they don't have a handle on being not-an-echo-chamber yet.

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