Re:Why Blog If Nobody Reads It?
by MrVandemar on Monday February 10, 2025 @05:05AM
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> Personal sites are dead because the Internet search is broken.
Personal sites are not dead. I've got one, and it is entirely fulfilling its function. Other people have them too.
Internet search is pretty broken, I'll agree with you. That said, Kagi and Marginalia both seem to tackle the problems with surfacing old and/or independent content. And people are bypassing the search-engines by constructing link pages, link blogs and web-rings, and seem to be doing fine.
Personal sites are not dead. I've got one, and it is entirely fulfilling its function. Other people have them too.
Internet search is pretty broken, I'll agree with you. That said, Kagi and Marginalia both seem to tackle the problems with surfacing old and/or independent content. And people are bypassing the search-engines by constructing link pages, link blogs and web-rings, and seem to be doing fine.