[oidar]

Blogs are still here, we just can't hear them over the megaphone on social media. Social media saturates the collective internet's attention so fully, that blogs never really have a chance to peculate up to most. Just look around HN, and you'll see plenty of blogs. If you want to search for blogs written by normal people, head over to kagi and search the "small internet".

[Yawrehto]

Or try marginalia.nu! It's a search engine designed to prioritize those sorts of small websites and show you stuff that might get buried by engines like Google, though it does include some larger, typically nonprofit, ones (e.g. Wikipedia). I especially like browsing the random button to get a taste of the websites it has, including random people's websites.

As a search engine, it's not the best. A search for "dogs" has Stack Exchange forums, Wikiquote, Wikisource, someone's GeoCities website on dog trivia, and RationalWiki as the top five results. But I don't think I'd ever have known about small websites like caps.wiki (top five for "technology"), or a website called "blogs of war" (the top link for both Moldova and AI), and so on.

[jhbadger]

But there really was a time when famous researchers had blogs and updated them regularly with lengthy posts. Yes, there are a few people like Terence Tao who still keep it up, but the movement away from blogs a decade or so ago in favor of Twitter and the like is real, unfortunately.