Re-reading Ribbonfarm's retirement post, feeling a bit despondent...
Maggie Appleton@Mappletons
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Oct 20, 2024
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Re-reading Ribbonfarm's retirement post, feeling a bit despondent about the current state of personal writing online: ribbonfarm.com/2024/10/10/rib…
High quality, long-form blogs are hard to come by. Twitter is disintegrating as a distribution platform. Curators are dying out...
High quality, long-form blogs are hard to come by. Twitter is disintegrating as a distribution platform. Curators are dying out...
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We're in a weird limbo shift without the right cultural infrastructure to encourage, support, distribute, and curate good quality personal writing and research.
If people are writing thoughtful, quality things on personal sites or gardens, I don't know how we'd ever find them.
If people are writing thoughtful, quality things on personal sites or gardens, I don't know how we'd ever find them.
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RSS isn't dead. Following single sites still works. But community distribution and curation feel like the missing pieces here.
Hard not to blame it all on the downfall of the Twitter algorithm. I'm trying to post on Bluesky more (bsky.app/profile/maggie…), but it's still quiet and lacks the raw mass of people here.
Hard not to blame it all on the downfall of the Twitter algorithm. I'm trying to post on Bluesky more (bsky.app/profile/maggie…), but it's still quiet and lacks the raw mass of people here.
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Losing a hyper-social place to put crappy, half-baked sketches and ideas, and get real reactions to them, is one of the larger losses at stake.
Idea-development space requires more than a Twitter-shaped platform. Also needs a lively culture of generous replies, yes-and-ing, and good shitposting. Waiting for that culture to develop elsewhere...
Idea-development space requires more than a Twitter-shaped platform. Also needs a lively culture of generous replies, yes-and-ing, and good shitposting. Waiting for that culture to develop elsewhere...
