My Life in Weeks

Re:My Life in Weeks by kqr on Saturday February 15, 2025 @11:47PM (#43065417)

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.

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Re:My Life in Weeks by OccamsMirror on Sunday February 16, 2025 @12:20AM (#43065566)

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.

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Re:My Life in Weeks by darkwater on Sunday February 16, 2025 @03:20AM (#43066332)

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.

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Re:My Life in Weeks by OccamsMirror on Monday February 17, 2025 @03:42AM (#43076662)

Or maybe a successful Substack author?

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Re:My Life in Weeks by bookofjoe on Sunday February 16, 2025 @08:05AM (#43067675)

There are a few, such as https://kottke.org/ (started in 1998)

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