Milla HavankaFeb 6, 2023

"The biggest reason personal blogs need to make a comeback is a simple one: we should all be in control of our own platforms.

If what is happening on Twitter hasn’t demonstrated it, our relationship with these social media platforms is tenuous at best. The thing we are using to build our popularity today could very well be destroyed and disappear from the internet tomorrow, and then what?

What happens to all the content you have created?"

https://www.theverge.com/23513418/bring-back-personal-blogging

Bring back personal blogging

As social media changes, Twitter slowly falls, and the landscape seems bleak, let’s take a moment and consider blogging. The personal blog built the internet, and maybe it can help fix it.

The Verge
Show threadstoicmike
@immersfer Everything online is ephemeral, no matter how you slice it...
Feb 6, 2023 at 7:14amWeb
Show threadLanolinoilFeb 6, 2023

@stoicmike @immersfer > Everything online is ephemeral, no matter how you slice it...

This could be said for anything -- Think of how few books we have from the Library of Alexandria. People have written since the Sumerians, but most of our knowledge of ancient civilization is pieced together with archaeology.

Think of how great a gift to humanity those books are and then realize all this content is even MORE valuable since it's not only royal decrees.

Show threadstoicmikeFeb 7, 2023
@pwilliams @immersfer The Egyptians did leave an enormous amount of writing all over their tombs and monuments. The Sumerians even earlier. But isn't most of it praise of kings, sales transactions, etc.? My parents left 8,450 books & 7,000 records. We could only keep a small part of it.