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Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?

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194 points gnabgib | 1 comments | 21 Nov 25 22:40 UTC | HN request time: 0.235s | 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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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".
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1. HeinzStuckeIt ◴[22 Nov 25 04:09 UTC] No.46012031[source]▶
The very active ecosystem of blogs I followed in the first decade of the new millennium, on arts themes (literature, cinema, non-popular music) and religious-denomination news, were mainly people above 30 blogging, sometimes much older. Wordpress had made it easy for any computer user, not just tech nerds, to set something up.