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Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?

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98 points gnabgib | 1 comments | 21 Nov 25 22:40 UTC | HN request time: 0.208s | source
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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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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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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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1. 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.