[lenderton]

The "Blogosphere" represented something like Livejournal. You'd write your daily thoughts, not so much imagepost at all, and there would be your friends doing the same thing whom you'd check on. Some countries still have internet ecosystems like this; NAVER is the main one I can think of, in Korea; Livejournal itself was sold to a Russian buyer nearly 20 years ago and lives on in that country mostly intact and widely used.

But longform internet posts are gone nowadays in America, largely - due to English. It's too widely spoken for things to be found easily. Think about finding information about heavy metal concerts in Finland: that's probably doable from Google purely based on the fact you're not imputing English.

Last point: https://www.statista.com/statistics/990899/livejournal-users...