Charles JohnsonControversial opinion: blogs were actually good and the shit that replaced them sucks
Rufus J. Cooter@Green_Footballs Agree! Tho' I think that a big part of their downfall was the lack of a plan for how to do comment moderation, which (for a while) big social managed to trick folk into believing was a problem they had solved
Ryan B. Anderson@RufusJCooter @Green_Footballs yes—there was a point where any stopped commenting on blogs and commentary about them shifted to Twitter etc. then everything shifted there.
@anthropologia @Green_Footballs Which made sense, at the time!
For me, the "Golden Age of Blogging" was when Ta-Nehisi Coates' blog was in full swing, but smiting the trolls turned into a full-time job, and then two full-time jobs, and then he largely abandoned the blog for twitter, and then abandoned twitter as it became another full-time job just to deal with the trolls
It's almost like there's a pattern here