Re:My Life in Weeks
by unmotivated-hmn on Saturday February 15, 2025 @11:46PM
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Could you share a few that you frequent? I'd love to read!
This happens with programming languages also. Lots of people cry "Perl is dead" because its market share is decreasing. But its absolute user count is increasing!
It's not a competition for a limited size of pie; the pie is still growing at a frightening pace, along with all its pieces.
Re:My Life in Weeks
by OccamsMirror on Sunday February 16, 2025 @12:20AM
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Although there used to be a time you could be a "successful blogger" and make enough money from advertising that you could focus on it full time.
Those days are long behind us.
Those days brought us to successful blogs/websites to be acquired by bigger corp and then enshittified.
Moreover, what used to be a successful blogger is now a successful YouTuber, no? Because generally speaking, masses prefer to watch and listen to things rather then read.
Re:My Life in Weeks
by OccamsMirror on Monday February 17, 2025 @03:42AM
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Or maybe a successful Substack author?
There are a few, such as https://kottke.org/ (started in 1998)
I'm firmly on the RSS bandwagon though. The shift comes from much more limited time and I need to filter what I can use it for.
(You're on one right now, naturally.)
I get the same feeling when people say "RSS is dead". I read dozens of websites via RSS and my RSS reader still works fine. Very few blogs I want to read don't support RSS.