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When it comes to old-web non-social patterns, the situation is much healthier I think. There are many blogs that are having their golden-age right now (Astral Codex comes to mind). I love what is being done in the smolweb, and the whole movement of Digital Gardens or Second Brains (100r.co is probably my favourite place on the internet).

Then, of course, you have Medium (rather enshitified now, but still big), and it's heir Substack (starting to get enshitified, but thriving) and newsletters in general. They are both huge and growing, long-form content is having a resurgence. Not to mention the phenomenon of podcasts, and let's not underestimate how much high-quality earnest content is on YouTube.

These are all modernized versions of old web patterns, first plain-old HTML content sites, and then blogs. And, well, ol' grandfather Radio, now greatly democratized.