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 I can't tell you.
Either it's for you, because you'd love to connect, come up with quirky topics and host the carnival for a month, and genuinely see what _others_ are writing, too, or maybe the blogging thing isn't doing what you really want it to :)
People change, interests change, skill changes.
It's not about traffic.
My blog traffic has stadily, slowly increased over 3y. ZK forum too.
@simonbs @mattiem @twostraws @azamsharp @dimsumthinking @helge @natpanferova @marioguzman
not exactly sure what you’re trying to say exactly here… I’d love to see what others write about, maybe I just don’t understand what the idea is. It sounded like a curated newsletter-like thing with a different host every month.
Might just have to see what it is exactly first
@simonbs @mattiem @twostraws @azamsharp @dimsumthinking @helge @natpanferova @marioguzman
@donnywals am I this old that nobody else knows what a blog carnival is? :D
Technically, it's content aggregation.
But instead of rotating the host for a newsletter, you _also_ rotate the topic all the linked blogs write about. Check out the indieweb carnival for inspiration, it's great! https://indieweb.org/IndieWeb_Carnival
March 2026 has announcement, roundup post, and soooo many linked blogs in the latter!
@simonbs @mattiem @twostraws @azamsharp @dimsumthinking @helge @natpanferova @marioguzman
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