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    177 points Arubis | 11 comments | 19 Oct 24 19:06 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source | bottom
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    blfr ◴[19 Oct 24 21:23 UTC] No.41890886[source]▶
    It seems to me that the blogosphere was not a ZIRP but rather a young Internet phenomenon. Which could exists, like usenet before it, when mere access to it was a filtering mechanism.

    Once you have seven billion people with virtually no access control, you can't have a public blogosphere, and groups retreat to the cozyweb.

    Either way, I enjoyed it while it lasted. Thanks for the Office series!

    https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...

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    1. tuatoru ◴[19 Oct 24 22:32 UTC] No.41891296[source]▶
    Substack is doing OK, I think. It's the intellectual child of the blogosphere.
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    2. immibis ◴[19 Oct 24 22:42 UTC] No.41891348[source]▶
    Substack (together with Medium) appears to be the blogosphere. As usual, venture capitalists managed to take over an open protocol and turn it into a singular product.
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    3. mattgreenrocks ◴[19 Oct 24 23:20 UTC] No.41891580[source]▶
    Surprised you lumped Medium in with Substack. I always associate Medium with C-tier tech tutorials at best these days.
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    4. lenderton ◴[19 Oct 24 23:29 UTC] No.41891644{3}[source]▶
    I've read some A-tier libertarian noir novellas on there.
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    5. philwelch ◴[19 Oct 24 23:37 UTC] No.41891682[source]▶
    Substack—and the surviving blogs that aren’t on Substack—are still going strong, and I don’t think they’re going to go away. Maybe Substack as a platform might decline the way Medium has. But the “Eternal September” types are usually either functionally illiterate or don’t like long form reading, and social media is increasingly optimized for those people. If you actually take the effort to write down your thoughts in text, you end up filtering for people intelligent and diligent enough to choose the written word even when video and photo content is readily available.
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    6. kelnos ◴[20 Oct 24 05:42 UTC] No.41893146{4}[source]▶
    > A-tier libertarian

    It's been a while since I've seen an oxymoron as perfect as this one.

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    8. immibis ◴[20 Oct 24 08:31 UTC] No.41893892{3}[source]▶
    They are both neoblog platforms.
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    10. RiverCrochet ◴[20 Oct 24 13:35 UTC] No.41895275[source]▶
    > If you actually take the effort to write down your thoughts in text, you end up filtering for people intelligent and diligent enough to choose the written word

    Interesting point. But, ChatGPT/AI summarization and Tiktok-style speech-to-text that the "Eternal September" perferrers are being trained to eat up.

    What is your thoughts on that altering the dynamic?

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    11. philwelch ◴[22 Oct 24 05:57 UTC] No.41911571{3}[source]▶
    I don’t think that alters the dynamic much. There isn’t much point generating low quality long form text content for the Eternal September crowd because they’ll just ignore it anyway. The filtering is on the consumer side, not on the producer side.