[deadbabe]

The exciting thing about search engines becoming useless as a traffic source, is that small publishers and blogs will eventually learn to adopt old technologies to gain traffic: web rings and links sections.

This means if you like a blog, there could now be a way to organically discover other blogs similar to it, by following links across multiple sites.

[candiddevmike]

No one knows what a web ring is, and there's no incentive for folks to leave their preferred "attention theme parks" that have been meticulously curated by big tech.

There will not be a second decentralized web renaissance. We are all too busy, lazy, and enthralled by low effort content, like posting on HN.

[righthand]

Why would I publish if no one is ever looking for my content? To feed the LLMs? A lot of blogging is done to make money. If no one is searching anymore what is the revenue model? What you’re describing to me seems like passion blogging which already exists and I don’t think the financially interested are going that way if there’s no revenue model.

[deadbabe]

The revenue is clout

[hackerbeat]

Clout doesn‘t pay the bills.

[deadbabe]

But it pays