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192 sats \ 7 comments \ @Scoresby 21 Aug alter_native

I’m picturing something relatively simple. Something like a group blog, or a blog co-op. A group of internet friends posting together, without too much oversight or coordination between them. When somebody has an idea, they post. Others can respond to those posts in new posts. Or not. And together, a group of people chip away at a blog together. Personally, I’d love to be in a group like that.

Guy is describing a forum.

But the forum users don't necessarily think of themselves as producing a collective work. I like the idea of thinking that we all are writing the Stacker News blog together.

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102 sats \ 4 replies \ @samhainsam 26 Aug

I feel like I’m shouting into void

Completely understandable sigh

But I guess spaces like this (stacker news) or just personal blogs (though mine is about art and religion, paganism and the occult) are really necessary even if everyone’s marching to the beat of their own drum. You run into interesting points of view and reminders of how vast the world is or just how simple things can be.

0 sats \ 3 replies \ @Scoresby OP 26 Aug

Speaking as someone who wrote a blog with absolutely no traffic for five+ years, I think a forum has a lot of advantages over a personal blog. A personal blog too easily becomes a journal. While there's not anything wrong with journaling, it is a different form of writing than writing for a public audience.

102 sats \ 2 replies \ @samhainsam 27 Aug

Forums remind me when I used to look for interesting things for me like Pottermore. As for a personal blog morphing into a blog, it can happen, there's the possibility but I guess it really depends on whether you have your goals and focus really clear and established and actually sticking to them. But either way, I think if the blog or forum has some refreshing and/or interesting topics and points of view, I'm on board. The thing is you really have to weed out the meh's from the oooh I'm on board.