I’ll be honest, I haven’t heard of this until now. Scrolling through the list of blogs, I also haven’t heard of many of them.
A lot of blogging is reputation and consistency. The other part is audience. It looks like he's been at this for 3 years. There might just not be an audience for it. If that's the case, and the hustle doesn't bring you inherent joy, it probably isn't worth doing.
I'm subscribed to People and Blogs by email, I always enjoy it, but I must admit that I would be happy for the series to end. The author is right: "it’s important to remind people that good things can only exist if we all collectively make them happen". We'll see if he follows through.
Sadly this quote kinda sums up a lot of things in life:
> And nothing makes me angrier than seeing people popping up from nowhere to express their sadness when a project gets shut down. Because where the fuck were these people when the creators of these projects needed some help to keep the momentum going?
See for example any local business, which had maybe half a dozen customers each day but got an outpouring of support once they announced they were closing down after a few decades. You could have actually helped them keep going, but no.
More morbidly though, this feels a lot like whatever happens when someone commits suicide. You get all these people coming out of nowhere to give their condolences and support and shock that they were going through this, but none of those people were ever actually around when the person needed them.
People have an unfortunate tendency to support things that are gone only after it's too late to do anything about it.
But yeah, it seems like actual interaction is a rarity online. Lots of lurkers watching from the shadows, but the rarity of actual comments or messages means that anyone that isn't a popular name in the space will probably not even know most of them exist.
Aside: I really miss the days of Google Reader before Google shut it down... I do occasionally look through reddit or medium, but not nearly as much as in the before times. Mostly if it doesn't show up on HN, I'm likely to miss it...
I'd probably add Lobste.rs to my rotation if I had an invite. But I'm not sure that I'll ever reach the regular blog follows that I used to have. I tried a few blog feed readers/aggregators following the death of Google Reader, but nothing really stuck. Not to mention the features that used to be in the browser being entirely gone at this point.
I was an avid GReader user and then lost all of the feeds when they closed down. I've been setting up miniflux lately, but the biggest problem is that over the years I've completely lost all blogs I used to follow (and many of them stopped writing anyway), so it's basically starting from zero. But it's already more interesting than trying to scourge Reddit for a non-marketingslop post to read.
I also configured it to fetch Hacker News with some filters to get rid of AI related posts, and it's actually a good way to follow this also.
If you haven't tried it, I would take a look at Inoreader. Especially if you have YouTube channels that you want to follow (it directly integrates with YouTube subscriptions).
That's kind of nifty... I may take a look... I mostly watch youtube from the couch (NVidia Shield TV), would love an app that did better filtering based on my follows and interests. I sometimes hit the subscribe tab, and it's a bit too much a lot of the time... also, harder to focus, since I have a lot of interests and may not be in the mood for tech videos when I want to watch cooking shows, or food documentaries, etc. When my SO is in the room, I need to skip about half the suggestions as she has zero interest in them. I like construction videos, she likes design but not the construction.
When I worked in an office, I used to also listen to podcasts and ebooks... haven't done any of that in years now.
I’ll be honest, I haven’t heard of this until now. Scrolling through the list of blogs, I also haven’t heard of many of them.
A lot of blogging is reputation and consistency. The other part is audience. It looks like he's been at this for 3 years. There might just not be an audience for it. If that's the case, and the hustle doesn't bring you inherent joy, it probably isn't worth doing.
Maybe I'm missing something, but it appears he is irritated that people aren't giving him their time? Why does he have that expectation?
I'm subscribed to People and Blogs by email, I always enjoy it, but I must admit that I would be happy for the series to end. The author is right: "it’s important to remind people that good things can only exist if we all collectively make them happen". We'll see if he follows through.
Sadly this quote kinda sums up a lot of things in life:
> And nothing makes me angrier than seeing people popping up from nowhere to express their sadness when a project gets shut down. Because where the fuck were these people when the creators of these projects needed some help to keep the momentum going?
See for example any local business, which had maybe half a dozen customers each day but got an outpouring of support once they announced they were closing down after a few decades. You could have actually helped them keep going, but no.
More morbidly though, this feels a lot like whatever happens when someone commits suicide. You get all these people coming out of nowhere to give their condolences and support and shock that they were going through this, but none of those people were ever actually around when the person needed them.
People have an unfortunate tendency to support things that are gone only after it's too late to do anything about it.
But yeah, it seems like actual interaction is a rarity online. Lots of lurkers watching from the shadows, but the rarity of actual comments or messages means that anyone that isn't a popular name in the space will probably not even know most of them exist.
Analytics and "Like" features are simple ways to measure feedback.
Aside: I really miss the days of Google Reader before Google shut it down... I do occasionally look through reddit or medium, but not nearly as much as in the before times. Mostly if it doesn't show up on HN, I'm likely to miss it...
I'd probably add Lobste.rs to my rotation if I had an invite. But I'm not sure that I'll ever reach the regular blog follows that I used to have. I tried a few blog feed readers/aggregators following the death of Google Reader, but nothing really stuck. Not to mention the features that used to be in the browser being entirely gone at this point.
I was an avid GReader user and then lost all of the feeds when they closed down. I've been setting up miniflux lately, but the biggest problem is that over the years I've completely lost all blogs I used to follow (and many of them stopped writing anyway), so it's basically starting from zero. But it's already more interesting than trying to scourge Reddit for a non-marketingslop post to read.
I also configured it to fetch Hacker News with some filters to get rid of AI related posts, and it's actually a good way to follow this also.
If you haven't tried it, I would take a look at Inoreader. Especially if you have YouTube channels that you want to follow (it directly integrates with YouTube subscriptions).
That's kind of nifty... I may take a look... I mostly watch youtube from the couch (NVidia Shield TV), would love an app that did better filtering based on my follows and interests. I sometimes hit the subscribe tab, and it's a bit too much a lot of the time... also, harder to focus, since I have a lot of interests and may not be in the mood for tech videos when I want to watch cooking shows, or food documentaries, etc. When my SO is in the room, I need to skip about half the suggestions as she has zero interest in them. I like construction videos, she likes design but not the construction.
When I worked in an office, I used to also listen to podcasts and ebooks... haven't done any of that in years now.