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177 points Arubis | 1 comments | 19 Oct 24 19:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.205s | source
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lukasb ◴[19 Oct 24 23:18 UTC] No.41891566[source]▶
I'm reading more blogs than ever. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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lenderton ◴[19 Oct 24 23:32 UTC] No.41891662[source]▶
But the problem is that they have to be hosted on the same platform, which will be set up like a social media site with curated content, otherwise you'll have to spend a lot of time finding them.

Maybe you get self-hosted things via github or whatnot, but that's about as non-consumerist as it'll get.

And the younger generation is not doing this beyond work-related pages, so eventually the internet-as-literature phase will end. In the past you could type into Google "new mothers discussion board" and immediately find organic, non-corporate socialization geared towards Americans. That ease of use is sort of erroneously gone, and probably not returning.

Might I ask...which blogs are you reading?

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1. lukasb ◴[20 Oct 24 05:29 UTC] No.41893104[source]▶
Crooked Timber, Daring Fireball, kottke.org, Econbrowser, DSHR's Blog, Jayarava's Raves, Pushing Ahead of the Dame, A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry, Michael Tsai, Scripting News, Simon Willison's Weblog ... about 150 feeds in total I think (some of them inactive now but overall more than I can read.)

I think most feed readers support OPML now, more people should put together blog starter packs (like Bluesky's starter packs, which are super useful.)