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Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?

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98 points gnabgib | 9 comments | 21 Nov 25 22:40 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source | bottom
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tinkelenberg ◴[22 Nov 25 00:33 UTC] No.46010827[source]▶
Every blog is a niche blog because blogging is a niche. It never was and never will be mainstream. Social media began as an attempt to make the spirit of blogging a low lift for the noobs.

Today, you’re talking to an audience that is online, willing to venture outside social media, and opting to actively read content rather than passively listen or watch. That’s far from everyone and that’s okay.

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1. viraptor ◴[22 Nov 25 00:38 UTC] No.46010860[source]▶
> It never was and never will be mainstream.

We had the time around when blogspot was a thing when everyone and their dog had a blog. It was mainstream enough for "Julie and Julia". It was a different time.

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2. tinkelenberg ◴[22 Nov 25 00:40 UTC] No.46010872[source]▶
It was a great time. Social media’s reached beyond that though. Grandma wasn’t online back then.
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3. bji9jhff ◴[22 Nov 25 00:43 UTC] No.46010894[source]▶
That grandma is dead. The online grandma is her daughter.

*You changed your post and now mine doesn't make sense anymore. I forgive you but don't do it again.

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4. munificent ◴[22 Nov 25 00:45 UTC] No.46010907[source]▶
It was good when we had social networking, and it got bad when that turned into social media.

The point should be connecting people to other people and their creativity, not just connecting people to content which may or may not be vomited out by generative AIs.

5. viraptor ◴[22 Nov 25 00:50 UTC] No.46010939[source]▶
> Everyone and their mother wasn’t online back then.

Yes, but - there were lots of people who got online in other to blog. Livejournal, blogspot and others were the reason some of their mothers did get online. It was that mainstream!

6. tinkelenberg ◴[22 Nov 25 00:51 UTC] No.46010950{3}[source]▶
Fixed it for you.
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7. bji9jhff ◴[22 Nov 25 00:59 UTC] No.46011017{4}[source]▶
Haha thanks ;)
8. simonw ◴[22 Nov 25 01:21 UTC] No.46011168[source]▶
It's fun watching TV episodes from ~2005 to ~2015 and noting how common it was back then for a blog or blogger to be used as a plot point.
9. averageRoyalty ◴[22 Nov 25 01:31 UTC] No.46011215[source]▶
I would argue that most people who had a blog were 15-25 in that time. Yes it was very common in that demo, but outside of it, it was definitely not. I don't know if that classifies as "mainstream".