[znpy]

> Isn't Substack.com like the old "blogosphere"

No.

The old blogosphere would be stuff like wordpress.com or blogger... which mostly are still there.

Also tumblr (now with 100% less porn) and the now defunct myspace.

I know some people that got into web development just because they wanted to customize their homepages on tumblr/myspace.

But nowadays people get on twitter/facebook and all they get is the same shade of blue, same as everybody else.

EDIT: before that there were websites that would give away free hosting space... Like 100MB or something like that.