Hey folks 👋
@simonbs recently mentioned how genuine, human blogging doesn't get the attention from The Algo's, internet's dead, etc.
I suggest a crafty countermeasure:
Swift Blog Carnival.
A host per month, setting a topic, gathering posts from the community. 🔁
To bring the community of writers together and also showcase smart people who don't have an audience.
WDYT? @mattiem @donnywals @twostraws @azamsharp @dimsumthinking @helge @natpanferova @marioguzman
I volunteer to set this up
@ctietze @simonbs @mattiem @twostraws @azamsharp @dimsumthinking @helge @natpanferova @marioguzman
I think we have plenty of curated newsletters already, how will this be different?
Biggest issue for me right now is that the number of folks interested in reading and finding posts seems to have dropped a lot over the last half a year or so…
@donnywals @ctietze @simonbs @mattiem @twostraws @azamsharp @dimsumthinking @helge @natpanferova @marioguzman
No one is asking me but:
Too many of the newsletters have the exact same content and recently it's very AI heavy. I suspect many people are like me and just don't want to hear about AI constantly, if at all. Lately I just delete newsletters unread, hoping the hype passes soon.
No disrespect intended.
I think original, new content that wasn't all AI all the time would be welcome.
@patrickmcconnell @ctietze @simonbs @mattiem @twostraws @azamsharp @dimsumthinking @helge @natpanferova @marioguzman
Totally fair, and I can’t say I disagree.
From my POV though, its so clear that there’s very little interest in reading blogs in general these days, traffic is steadily going down every week still
@donnywals @ctietze @simonbs @mattiem @twostraws @azamsharp @dimsumthinking @helge @natpanferova @marioguzman
I can only repond from where I sit but I'm just generally tired of the behavior of big tech, tired of creating things and releasing them into the void, tired of being too old to be considered for jobs where folks need to be young and abusable. Just tired of it all.
I remain hopeful things will recover and go in new directions but we shall see.
Christian Tietze
Donny Wals
Patrick McConnell