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
@patrickmcconnell @ctietze @simonbs @mattiem @twostraws @azamsharp @dimsumthinking @helge @natpanferova @marioguzman and the content that does well is, you guessed it, very ai-related.
Probably requires a shift in mindset for folks like me but it’s been quite demotivating in terms of writing posts…
@mattiem @donnywals @ctietze @simonbs @twostraws @azamsharp @dimsumthinking @helge @natpanferova @marioguzman
I aggregate my blog reading into Tapestry app. I see the content but I have no clue if the blogs can see my traffic.
I am not a creator of this sort of content but much of it feels like it's just gaming the system to get the rewards.
For example video content that would be easier digested as text, etc. There are exceptions of course and my preference for text over video is personal
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