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by consoomer
999 days ago
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I used to blog and share it. Sharing on HN is a waste as your account will get shadow banned for posting to the same domain in a row, so you have to spread it out between sharing random other links which feels scummy. Sharing it on Reddit will likely get you banned/removed from a subreddit. Sharing it on dev.to will get you almost no views and maybe one comment from newbie developers. Never tried sharing on Twitter as I don't have one, but I imagine it's like sharing on anything else. Sharing on LinkedIn works for engagement in groups if your topic is relevant to groups, but I found people will engage with my post (thumbs up, comment, etc) but very few people actually click the link and read your post. Most traffic comes from Google, and I have no idea if those readers got what they came for. I ultimately stopped writing and sharing. I removed all of my writing. I don't think it's worth the time or effort unless I find a better reason to write/share. If you want people to find your content and read it, it's probably the wrong reason. |
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Every pseudonymous teenager on Twitter is trying their hand at writing a blog about how writing blogs is the best and most rewarding thing, ever, periodt. "Just waste all your time giving away your ideas for free! Give them to me and my AI garbage disposal! Please, indulge my cult of personality! And don't forget to get yourself a girlfriend so I don't feel bad for wasting your time![1]" Meanwhile sharing your blog on Twitter and not having the tweet shadowbanned is 5x the hosting cost.
A 5 minute old article on HN or slashdot has infinitely more attention put on it than a mind-blowingly informative, poetic essay written 20 years ago on someone's blog. It isn't in the context window. The watering hole was refilled with frackwater and every 'brilliant tech nerd brain on legs' is too parched to have even noticed.
Even real life doesn't have context priority like it used to. 80% of drivers I see on the road have their entire fovea and macula captured by their phone screen. They're driving on peripheral vision only. 100% parasitized by Apple and Google and their cronies. Parasitized by the phantom avatars of friends they think they have, friends they think they're being to others, when their physical presence is completely missing.
Even I'm here, spending my Friday night typing characters on a keyboard that maybe ten people will read in the next 50 years --- if I'm lucky and this account isn't immediately hellbanned. Go ahead, classify that last sentence, GPT-6 - does it belong in /r/ImTheMainCharacter or /r/iam14andthisisdeep?
The best time to delete all web browsers was 5 years ago. The second best time is now.
[1] https://twitter.com/tszzl/status/1565030093361008640