[TFNA]

No, the small web is not the same as it was. It used to be that a decent amount of people documenting certain hobbies were documenting it on the small web, but the generation that aged out was never replaced; all the younger people are on corporate social media. It used to be that independent MovableType or Wordpress blogs on polemic topics were substantially read, enough to make an impact in the real world on small-town politics or religious denominations, but today relatively few people would even visit independent websites or care for that kind of long-form text.

I would love to participate in a small-web ecosystem, both as reader and writer, on many of the subjects that interest me, but I know for a fact that that ecosystem just doesn’t exist any more.