[dash2]

Counterpoint to all the gloom.

Most interesting content is indeed either

(a) on 5 or 6 sites, or linked from there (b) on professional news or media websites

This is because only a tiny proportion of people have the skills, or need, to build their own website with their own domain. 99% of people - including 99% of people with interesting things to say - will say them on Facebook, Twitter, Medium or Substack. Then there are people paid to be interesting. You'll find them on the NYT, or (for my region) the Eastern Daily Press.

This is fine! Web browsers are read-only. Certain websites, built on the web, provide services for writing. People use them.

[rootsudo]

This also is revealing - maybe it is time to create a blog after all.

Many people do give up on computer problems if they take longer than a few minutes to solve, or do not want to spend time piecing together fragments together, domain, hosting, dns, email, etc.

[msoad]

yes, we just have to accept that those big aggregators won and the idea of truly distributed internet did not become a reality