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 @BigFoxBoss I think, it's *actually* lack of federation that did it in. What's the point writing a standalone blog, when nobody can comment on it without registering (which nobody will)? I killed mine with the same motivation, having written for it for 5 years or so. And there were some fucking elaborate posts in there, what a waste. 14 comments
@BigFoxBoss My point is not longform blogging being not easily digestible. My point is standalone infrastructure being obtuse and not easily interactable without federation, there's no community. As for "everything became social network", well... The first proper social network was Livejournal - there were friend subscriptions in there, as the prominent feature. And it was longform blogging platform, also the first one. So, always has been. @BigFoxBoss But what if your main niche is just you and your homies? It's VERY hard to convince people to register on your website so they could interact with just your and their posts, even if they're your friends. @BigFoxBoss I'm not an imbecile, I know what instant messaging is, and I remember ICQ. I had a 6-digit number. I'm talking strictly about social blogging. Only that. Not other platforms/protocols/whatever. Social networking/social blogging is easy to do when you're on the same website, and nigh impossible to do if you're standalone. Unless there's federation. Then it's not as easy as the same website, but suddenly - it's doable. @BigFoxBoss Centralization around Disqus notwithstanding, yeeah, kinda. It's a crawl compared to what we have with Fedi now, though, when you just click "follow" and boom, subscribed. @drq @iliazeus @mittorn Also, I heard that tumblr is integrating with AP, so they may join fedi, but no further news on that yet still. @BigFoxBoss They've been promising this for quite a while now. |
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That's the point I'm making, people just moved on to more easily digestible platforms and microblogs in general. Maybe th public eventually expected every other platform to be commentable and interactive like microblogs and social networks, and they stopped reading and interacting with anything that didn't nteract immediately with them. So everything became a social network, apparently... :blobfoxo_o:
So then writers ended up either advertsing their blog on a microblog (and barely get anything), or just abandoned it in favour of microblogs and their kinds of posts.
Wordpress might just have been late to catch up.
@drq @iliazeus @mittorn
That's the point I'm making, people just moved on to more easily digestible platforms and microblogs in general. Maybe th public eventually expected every other platform to be commentable and interactive like microblogs and social networks, and they stopped reading and interacting with anything that didn't nteract immediately with them. So everything became a social network, apparently... :blobfoxo_o: