[JadeNB]

> > 2) People interested in blogging, who give up after less than a year due to lack of visibility (compared to Medium/Substack)

> You don’t think most people that post to the likes of Medium or Substack also give up quickly?

I think the parent meant "lack of visibility compared to Medium/Substack", not "give up after less than a year compared to [longer viability on] Medium/Substack". (If you, in turn, meant implicitly just to say "read Medium/Substack", then I think that fails on the "small, personal" criteria, and possibly also on "non-commercial".)

[chrismorgan]

I read rchaud as saying “people that give up on blogging not long after starting because they’re not getting readers, whereas if they had posted on Medium/Substack they would get readers and would continue”, but I think that doesn’t reflect reality or the reasons people stop.